Tamnavulin Double Cask

I am not sure if this is my first Tamnavulin, but what i am truly sure is that i haven't had the chance to proper analyze this distillery that belongs to "Emperador.Inc" which are the nowadays owners of Whyte & Mackay, a company that in whisky has one great brand: Dalmore. The other ones tend to be not to appealing to the general public. This is the review for the Double Cask, their first official bottling after some decades. Finished in sherry casks. Bottled at 40%abv. On the nose,  lots of fruits and sweets. Citric, chocolate. Grapefruit, gooseberries and other fresh farm fruits. The toffee note here is out of this world. On the palate, it is a little simple. Lots of toffee, gooseberries and an acid feeling like a lemon peel. Aftertaste was dull. Sawdust, standard oakiness and bitter new wood. Overall, for a cheap single malt, which comes from a very sub-par distillery, this was not as bad as i could have guessed by only looking at the bottle, which is not my cup of tea. Enjoyable dram with a dissapointing, young finish. My score for it is 79 over 100.

Olfato: malte tostado, cereais (tipo barra de cereal), adocicado, leve vínico, frutos vermelhos puxando a morangos, ameixas em calda, cerejas, amadeirado de madeira molhada, leve canela, cítrico de laranjas doces e leve álcool. Paladar: boa correspondência com o olfato, apresentando-se mais picante e quente no paladar. Possui um leve amargor, mas realmente leve, deixando mais espaço para as notas amadeiradas, adocicadas e de frutos vermelhos. Finalização: curta, com predominância do calor do álcool, amadeirado leve e adocicado. É possível perceber um residual de cereais torrados, juntamente com um pouco da picância percebida no paladar. Impressões gerais: bom whisky, porém simples. Possui uma semelhança interessante com whiskies da Glenfiddich, porém menos arredondado. Também é um bom custo x benefício, sendo que já consegui comprar por menos de R$ 200,00. É possível ser degustado puro, mas com gelo ou um filete de água é possível abrandar um pouco do álcool percebido.

Nose: fleeting, light hint of lemon and pear. Palate: always lemon and pears, a very light hint of sherry, always all elusive. Final: short and slightly bitter. An inconsistent whisky, not bad, but that doesn't give any emotion. Rating 3.5 ______________________________________________________________ Naso: sfuggente, leggero sentore di limone e pera. Palato: sempre limone e pere, una leggerissima punta di sherry, sempre tutto sfuggente. Finale: breve e leggermente amarognolo. Un whisky inconsistente, non cattivo, ma che non regala alcuna emozione. Voto 3,5

A rich, Single Malt Scotch Whisky by the Tamnavulin Distillery in Speyside, Scotland initially matured in American oak barrels & then finished in ex-Sherry casks. It has a rich birth with notes of chocolate mousse with brown sugar, apples & blackberries; while a rich & spicy life adds notes of Christmas morning with pudding, chocolate brownies, toffee, & a hint of barley; that leads to a long & warming death. June 2019 / 2020 / July 2021 / September 2022

Aroma is crisp, red apple. Flavors: The sweetness of red apple is present, along with a spritzing of orange peel that gives it some of that spicy zing. It has a watery mouth-feel. In the beginning of drinking it, it has an alcohol burn/vapor at the end, but close to the end of the glass -- and having another round -- that goes away. Decent price for a decent scotch, thus my slightly elevated rating. Rating based on neat sipping.

Second tasting of the evening. 4/5 bottle. Very discreet and not deep taste, in a bad sense. Sharp alcohol taste and alcohol burning in the mouth. A very bit of wood cask in the finish. The smell a lot of alcohol. The nose burns and tickles. Between 2.25 and 2.5 stars.