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| Hi, this is one of our (almost) daily tastings. Santé! |
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September 28, 2022 |
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Little duos, today two special Tormore
Elixir Distillers' Tormore Distillery! We just can't wait… But in the meantime…
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Tormore 27 yo 1995/2022 (48.3%, WhiskySponge, for LMDW, Collection Antipode, refill hogshead, 136 bottles) 
On the label, an anthropomorphic sponge lying on the ground while dreaming of flowers. Too much Tormore, probably, unless that would have been 'something else'. Colour: gold. Nose: flowers perhaps (mullein? Honeysuckle? Freesia? Orange blossom?), most probably honeys, and fruits for sure. Pink bananas, juicy sultanas, prickly pears, rambutans, plums, melons big time, papayas… I'm also finding a few droplets of pinot gris. Alsatian pinot gris, naturally. Mouth: feels stronger than 48.3, with bags of orchard fruits and touches of caramel and stout. I'm sure it would take water with ease and joy… With water: and it does. Moist marzipan (with kirschwasser, of course) plus melons ala Bruichladdich and peaches ala Ardmore. Wonderful 'western' fruitiness. Zwetschke. Finish: medium, fruity and doughy. Brioche full of candied fruits. Comments: bordering stardom, a perfect bridge between fruits and doughs. Who said 'so, panettone?'
SGP:641 - 89 points. |
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Tormore 29 yo 1993/2022 (54.5%, Gordon & MacPhail, Connoisseurs Choice, first fill sherry butt, cask #5053, 554 bottles) 
It's to be remembered that G&M are filling their own casks. Colour: full gold. Nose: much more sherry here, obviously, so more roasted nuts, walnuts, coffee, perhaps a little gunpowder too, struck matches, bitter oranges… With water: soy sauce, game, leather, burnt caramel, umami sauce (litres of that), soot… Mouth (neat): heavy flinty sherry, orange zests, salted liquorice, almost some tar, leather, some mustard sauce, slightly overly infused tea, dry Madeira, bits of tobacco… It has to be said that it's not easy to come after the very natural WhiskySponge with this kind of leafy and faintly s******y sherry. With water: at the frontiers. Finish: long and extremely umami-y, but with a sweeter aftertaste on candied grapefruits. Comments: some parts are brilliant, others are perhaps more difficult. A style that's slowly parting in most parts of the whisky world (just not in Mittelleuropa, ha!)
SGP:472 - 85 points. |
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