[Scotch Review] Tomatin 2007 Caribbean Rum Cask

 

Tomatin has been good to me lately, their limited edition vintage of their peated Cu Bocan series was a hit with me and I'm excited to review another Tomatin so soon after the last one. My dad originally won this bottle at a charity auction for and we enjoyed a good dram together to celebrate the celebrate the end of summer, aka the summer break and not actual summer which ends later this month.
This is a vintage of Tomatin aged for 9 years in a rum cask sourced from the Caribbean. Not sure which nation or rum distillery this barrel came from so that kinda sucks as I'd be curious to know.

The good thing is that its entirely matured in rum for all 9 years of its life and is bottled non-chill filtered at 46% ABV.

This is one of 6600 bottles produced and retails at the LCBO in Ontario, Canada for just under $100 CAD. Never had a full rum matured scotch before so let's see how this does despite being a Tomatin.

• Colour: Straw gold
• Nose: Creamy vanilla, banana bread, sour cream glaze, sweet woodspice, apple, pear, raisins, light touches of dark molasses
• Palate: Sea salt, brown sugar, apples, pears, vanilla bean, toffee, allspice, white pepper, tart citrus
• Finish: Medium to long with spiced and tart citrus and temperate treefruits

It's an interesting dram especially on the finish but its still a bit too simple for this to be worth the MSRP, at least here in Ontario. The mix of tart, spicy and sweet is a nice mix but it doesn't really evolve over time or rise above the quality that I put most non-chill filtered IBs of the usual blendhouse releases aged in a hogshead in. It's a solid dram that I'd drink anytime it was offered but it's just not hitting the highs a unique cask really should.

79 pts

 

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