Tormore 20 Years Old Berry Bros & Rudd Cask:100152 51.5% 1992

Professional reviews

Serge Valentin (79)

Colour: straw.

Nose: we’re much closer to raw barley this time, it’s even slightly feinty at first nosing. Yoghurt sauce, custard, apple peelings and just touches of Swiss cheese, then faint touches of wine vinegar and some fresh oak (broken branches). Not the most mature, I’d say. With water: becomes cleaner but also more varnishy.

Mouth (neat): much, much more interesting than on the nose. Very nice start on mossy, grassy tones, earthy tea, ginseng, cardamom seeds… Then we have more green apples and truckloads of gooseberries and greengages. Now I understand why they bottled this baby ;-). With water: more earth and grass.

Finish: quite long, from green apples to angelica and grass.

Comments: I think the nose was a little difficult but I really enjoyed the palate