Tobermory 16 Years Old 2007 Cask #HL 21049 (Old Malt Cask)

The Old Malt Cask

700ml / 50%

Single Malt

$171

This Tobermory, a 16 year old, from 2007 released by Hunter Laing, at 50%. An unpeated island malt, with fig, raisin and nuts over a waxy malt. Orchard fruit and wax throughout. From the painted harbour town of Tobermory. Fruity and waxy, well aged. A waxy, fruity island malt. Oily, nutty and full. The unpeated malt of Mull.

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SKU TBM148 Categories Islands, Scottish Whisky, Tobermory, Whiskey Brand: Tobermory

Description

A Tobermory single malt, chosen and bottled by Hunter Laing, aged 16 year old from 2007, drawn from cask HL 21049 and bottled at 50%. The outturn was 742 bottles. Tobermory is the unpeated malt of the island's only distillery, founded in 1798 by John Sinclair. Burn Stewart revived the distillery in 1993, and Distell of South Africa bought it in 2013.

The spirit was drawn off stills with their S shaped lyne arms, for a medium bodied, fruity spirit. A sherry cask wrapped the waxy spirit in dried fruit and a nutty depth. Around the mid teens the malt gains a fuller, waxier body. Long maturation turns the green young spirit towards honey and ripe fruit. In dry summers the distillery has paused when its hill loch ran low. The distillery sits at the head of the bay, beneath a steep wooded hill. Both malts feed the Scottish Leader and Black Bottle blends as well as single malt.

At a full 50% it is intense and layered. Green apple, citrus and a herbal lift, and the Oloroso adds figgy fruit and a warm nuttiness. The texture is oily and waxy, the fruit threaded through. Wax and ripe fruit see out a long finish. This is Tobermory's oily, unpeated island single malt.