Tomatin 10 Year Old 1989 SMWS Single Cask 11.17 An Islay From Speyside Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (1999) 70cl

Tomatin 10 Year Old 1989 SMWS Single Cask 11.17 An Islay From Speyside Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (1999) 70cl

1 of 208 bottles released. Most were drunk decades ago.

The SMWS are one of the Britain's most revered independent bottlers with a worldwide network of partner bars with one mission of getting as much whisky at natural cask strength without water to different nations including USA, Canada, Switzerland, UK, Austria, Germany and many others.

These older labels from the first runs are mostly with distillation methods that include direct heat which was replaced with steam for many distilleries for environmental reasons changing the taste of whisky forever. It'll get real interesting when nuclear fusion is used to distil whisky. We might glow green for a few weeks after we drink the stuff. Who knows.... but all we know is that the old stuff has a musky taste that is VERY welcomed by people nowadays trying to time travel through whisky's past.

A lot of Tomatin use virgin oak as well as refill bourbons. We have tried a Tomatin or 10 but the older we go, the more crazy we are about them.

About Tomatin

Tomatin Distillery was founded in 1897 by the Tomatin Spey Distillery Company, located in the Highlands between Aviemore and Inverness. Going through various fluctuations in production whilst growing from 2 stills to 23 stills throughout the 60s and 70s before going into liquidation. In 1985 the Distillery was purchased by long-term Japanese customers, Takara Shuzo Co. and Okara & Co. thus becoming the first Scottish distillery to be under Japanese management. Later the prestigious Antiquary blender J&W Hardie was added to the portfolio, and Marubeni bought the distillery. In more recent years production has been downsized to utilise just 10 stills and the decision was made to focus on the single malt range, such as the ‘Cu Bocan’ expression released in 2013.

61.4% ABV

70cl