First Impressions
Tomatin 18 is the bottle that quietly converts sceptics. Bottled at a generous 46% and non-chill-filtered.
Distillery & Heritage
Tomatin was founded in 1897 in the Monadhliath hills south of Inverness. After becoming the biggest malt distillery in Scotland in the 1970s and almost going under in the early 1980s, it was rescued in 1986 by Takara Shuzo and Okura — the first Japanese ownership in Scotch.
Tasting Notes in Detail
The nose is rich and unmistakably oloroso — dark chocolate orange, raisin, walnut and polished oak with a hint of leather. The palate is velvet-textured: Christmas cake, dried cherry, fig, dark honey, cinnamon and toasted almond.
Verdict
One of the most quietly impressive sherry-finished Highlanders on the shelf.
