Colour: deep gold. Nose: starts wonderfully, mostly on ‘a freshly opened pack of liquorice drops’ and notes of apricot pie (and warm brioche), with quite some fruits but less than in other old versions from the mid-1950s. More raw oak coming through after a while, as well as whiffs of mocha and straight malt. Also hints of parsley and even chives. Slight dustiness in the background, and finally no more fruits, which isn’t very ‘old Tomatin’ to say the least. Mouth: nice, smooth, mid-oaky mid-fruity, with again quite some coffee and praline and maybe even caramel. A little ginger as well, dried figs… Gets then drier and drier, maybe a tad papery. A little pepper as well. Maybe slightly ‘narrow’ but it’s nice old whisky. Slight OBE. Finish: not really long, with quite some dried pears and maybe a little tapioca (that floury feeling that you sometimes get in some old malts). Comments: good old Tomatin, different from most old fruitmonsters from the same stills

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