TAMDHU - 12 ans - 43%
Tamdhu Distillery is a Speyside distillery, located in the village of Knockando in Banffshire, Scotland. Tamdhu comes from Gaelic for little dark hill.
The distillery was founded in 1896 by a group of assemblers, wishing to engage in the production of their own whisky. The first malt whisky was distilled and casked in 1897. It quickly passed on into the hands of Highland Distillers. The history of the distillery was fairly quiet, without changing owners, but still marked by a long dormancy between 1927 and 1947. Its production capacity was tripled between 1972 and 1975.
It was announced that as of April 2010, the Tamdhu Distillery, belonging to the Highland Distillers subsidiary of the Edrington Group, was being closed and the plant shuttered. It was then sold to Ian MacLeod Distillers in June 2011, who recommenced production of single malt in May 2013. The Tamdhu whisky is almost completely used for the production of blended whiskies, such as The Famous Grouse, J & B and Cutty Sark.
Under current owners, Ian MacLeod, Tamdhu's bottlings include a 12 year-old, entirely sherry-matured standard bottling.
Lightly smoky
