Tomatin 1976, Liquid Sun (en)

Tomatin distillery is famous for its bottlings of the year 1976, and the quality of the whisky has not diminished during this session of WDTS, since this bottle sent by The Whisky Agency has obtained first place in during this session. However, this bottle was either not unanimously accepted since a gap of 27 points separates the highest score (92) of the worst (65). This bottle costs 150 euros.
Here are the notes extremes:

TTN

Color: Amber. Nose: Rich and powerful on the precious woods and exotic fruits (mango, pineapple, ripe banana) all covered with a veil of honey and vanilla. The nose is very attractive! Taste: Whoa! Lots of body, imposing on the palate. Avalanche of tropical fruits (mango, papaya, guava, banana, and I certainly forgotten ...) a minty edge. Remarkable! Finale: It goes on at length about the same tones (to my delight). Overall impression: I love it! It is not without make me think of some Tomatin tasted recently in any case an excellent malt.

Johannes Sauer

Colour: Mahagony, very soft greenish glints. Nose: Nifty sherry (raisins and figs), not too dominating with delicate wooden notes, backed by a strange impression of wet newspaper (eggnog?). Taste: Alcohol sure more than 46%. A strange and disturbing floral note I haven’t been aware in the nose dominates here the first impression: Like strange smelling weed or old vegetable soup. Strange and not very pleasant to me. I will try if a wee bit of water helps: Still a very strange and unbalanced blend of old dried fruit and overly cooked and very much spiced vegetable soup. Finish: Very peppery, which is fine, but not at all round and harmonizing with the fruits and wrongly spiced soup. Long and migling between black pepper and perfumed soap. Guesswork: This might be a very fine, old and expensive whisky matured in a sherry or port cask. But sorry, exactly not my dram.

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