Distilled at the Speyside distillery Tomintoul in 2006 & bottled by Cadenhead's for their Natural Strength Collection in Winter (early) 2023. Finished in a Fino Cask from March 2021. The new range of Tomintoul and Glencadam have been succesful in creating flavoursome whisky by finishing after they are in bourbon barrels for the first part of their lifetime.
Starting life as a small site with two stills, the number has since doubled. Its style also appears to have shifted on at least two occasions from the overtly fruity manifestations of its earliest guise to a more cereal-accented make in recent years. A peated variant, bottled as Old Ballantruan, is also now part of the portfolio. Its growing presence in the malt category will hopefully convince more people of its undoubted quality.
The distillery was built in 1965 by a pair of whisky-broking firms, Hay & MacLeod and W. & S. Strong, before being folded into the Whyte & Mackay stable in 1973. It remained part of the blending firm until 2000 when it was purchased by Angus Dundee where it performs dual functions as provider of mature spirit for contract blends and under its own guise.
