Tomintoul 44 Year Old 1976 (cask 1) – Vintage Single Cask | 700ML

Introduction

Whiskey: Tomintoul 44 Year Old 1976 (cask 1) – Vintage Single Cask | 700ML

The third edition of spectacular 30 year old single malts from Tomintoul, released to celebrate its Master Distiller Robert Fleming’s 30 years in the role between 1990 and 2020!

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Size: 700ML

Proof: 83 (42.5%ABV)

Origin: Scotland

Distillery: Tomintoul

Incredible well-aged Tomintoul single malt from the Vintage Single Cask range, this one was distilled all the way back in November 1976 (that’s the very same year that Eagles released Hotel California, don’t you know)! Rather satisfyingly, it spent its 44 years of maturation in cask #1, which was an ex-Port pipe. Safe to say it’ll have imparted a host of jammy, fruity flavours to this Speysider. Just 814 cask strength bottles were released at 42.5% ABV.

Tomintoul 44 Year Old 1976 (cask 1) – Vintage Single Cask | 700ML Tasting Notes

Nose: Impressive and charming nose.

Palate: This is extremely rich and very balanced in flavour.

Finish: Great elegance and length on the finish.

Distillery Information

Tomintoul (pronounced tom-in-TOWEL) was built in 1964, under the ownership of Hay & Macleod and W & S Strong, in the village of the same name, which itself is one of Scotlands highest, at an altitude of 345m (1132 feet). Drawing its water from the Ballantruan Spring, the whisky distillery sits in rugged terrain; jagged undulations surround and are specked with many a wooded clump. It is said the purity of the spring and the clean air at such an altitude contribute to the smooth, easy-drinking single malt of Tomintoul; indeed, they market their Scotch as the easy drinking dram. The distillery is rather large with a capacity of 3.3 million litres per annum. Tomintoul runs at maximum capacity, with a seven day working week and boasts a healthy storage capacity; its four warehouses can hold 75,000 casks. In 1974, the first official bottling was launched in the form of Tomintoul twelve year-old. Two weeks a year, a heavily peated malt with 55ppm is used for mashing, for the peated bottlings in Tomintouls range. Currently under Angus Dundee ownership, Tomintoul whisky distillery was acquired from Whyte and Mackay in 2000. It would seem Tomintoul has come of age of late with a surge of recent releases, including the 1976 vintage, bottled in 2008.