- Raided Score: 90
- Publication: WhiskyCast
- Excerpt: The finish is long and smooth with a touch of malt. A splash of water makes this dram even smoother.
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- Raided Score: 83
- Publication: Distiller
- Excerpt: The finish is full of wood spices more heather, but leaves you with a bitter taste in your mouth.
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- Raided Score: 84
- Publication: whiskyfun
- Excerpt: Perhaps not an utter star yet, but we’re already in the upper leagues.
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- Raided Score: 80
- Publication: Whisky Advocate
- Excerpt: Clean, straight-forward and uncomplicated.
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- Raided Score: 91
- Publication: Drinkhacker
- Excerpt: I’d love more fruit here, but Tomatin 12 is so well-balanced — despite its simplicity — that it’d almost be a shame to change anything.
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- Raided Score: 88
- Publication: Whiskey Raiders
- Excerpt: Not amazing but far from bad. Solid and inexpensive.
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Intro:
This is the 12 year old expression of Tomatin that populates their core range. A blend of bourbon and sherry maturation was used for this specific bottling. It's pretty ubiquitous, and not at all expensive, so let's give it a go.
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Nose:
Sweet honey, apples, almond. A fair bit more sherry than I was expecting, but nothing insane. Pears, vanilla, light amaretto, light baked bread.
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Taste:
Thin but no heat. Sweet honey, vanilla. Fresh baked bread. Pears, apples, almonds. Light sulfur. Not super complex, but pleasant.
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Finish:
Short, light, no heat. Sweet honey, light sherry funk. Yeasty sweetness, light fig, faint almond. Lots of vanilla.
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Overall:
Not amazing but far from bad. Solid and inexpensive.
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Score:
5
- Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources