Tomatin Selected Single Cask Bottling 17 Years Old 2006

This official Tomatin single malt, a 17 year old release from 2006, drawn from cask 33298 and bottled at 55.7%. The outturn was 287 bottles. Tomatin is the soft, fruity Highland malt of a distillery founded in 1897 near Inverness. Water comes from the Allt na Frithe, the burn of the deer, in the Monadhliath hills.

It was run through the distillery's onion stills after a long fermentation, to build a fruity, gently spiced character. An unusual cask gave it a distinctive, fruity character. Around the mid teens the malt gains a fuller honey and ripe fruit. The soft, fruity spirit takes cask character readily across maturation. 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. The arrival of the Highland Railway in the 1890s made the distillery possible.

At its natural 55.7% it is concentrated. Orchard fruit and a gentle malt, and the wine cask lends red berry and a dry spice. It is gentle and fruity, the soft spirit shining through. A fruity, lightly spiced finish lingers. This is the soft, fruity Highland malt of Tomatin.