Review #25: Tormore 1984/2013, Archives, 51.0%, Cask #3669

Fishes of Samoa!

I really don't have any associations with Tormore. I guess it's in Speyside (roughly in the middle), I guess it mostly goes into blends. It's a big, fairly modern distillery, but not known for a particularly distinctive spirit. Some age and a nice label should help, though.

Very nice nose -- at first it seems indistinctly fruit plus grass, but it opens up in a more particular way -- I get salty canned peaches, lilac, a tiny bit of smoke and charred wood, lychee, apricots, honey, and some sweet herbs. Maybe a little apple mixed in there. Some white chocolate, too. Has that nice old nose where fruit and flowers and creaminess sort of merge. I could smell this all day. [time passes, sun sets]

If I drink it, I won't have it any more, and yet ... sharper and oakier than I expected, but it's nice to have some weight after that ethereal nose. Same flavors, but the creamy/chocolate/vanilla ones come to the front on the finish.

That nose is worth a million, and I'm a sucker for anything old that doesn't taste like a mouthful of wood.

score: 90

Somehow still available at whiskybase.