Tomatin 10 Years Old

This official Tomatin single malt, a 10 year old and bottled at 40%. Tomatin is the soft, fruity Highland malt of a distillery founded in 1897 near Inverness. Today it works twelve stills, having shifted from blend volume to single malt.

The spirit was run through the distillery's onion stills after a long fermentation, to build a fruity, gently spiced character. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, vanilla beneath the orchard fruit. Still young, the malt is fruity and mellow with a gentle spice. The soft, fruity spirit takes cask character readily across maturation. The very long fermentation is central to the distillery's fruity character. The distillery sits beside the A9, the old road north to Inverness. Cu Bocan focuses on unusual cask finishes, from sherry to wine and beyond. Tomatin stands at over three hundred metres, among the highest in the land. An old cattle drovers' road ran through Tomatin, and whisky was made here long before the distillery.

At 40% it is clean and fruity. Orchard fruit and a gentle malt, and the ex-Bourbon lends vanilla and a soft honey. A baked apple and a gentle spice lift it. It finishes soft, fruity and clean. This is the softer side of the Highlands.