Tamdhu 1963 50 Year Old Single Malt (Bottled 2017) Whisky 700ml

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Wave upon wave rolls across the nose and palate, then develops still further through the treless finish. With each sensation, the uncharted depths of half a century. Distilled on 2 November 1963 and matured in a single first fill European Oaks Sherry Butt Matured for five decades. 100 decanters of Tamdhu 50 YO available globally.
Colour: Deep hues of rich mahogany.
Nose: Forest fruits, elegant oak and orange depths, with underlying rosehip, dark chocolate and marzipan.
Palate: Cloves, liquorice, spresso and baked apples, also revelas banana, black pepper and roasted almond.
Finish: Long lingering of ginger, cocoa, walnuts and maple syrup.

Bottle number: 66, 61, 81, 52, 78, 63, 33, 67

Tamdhu distillery is a single malt Scotch Speyside whisky distillery, located in the town of Knockando in Banffshire, Scotland. Tamdhu comes from Gaelic for little dark hill.
The distillery was founded in 1896 by a group of assemblers, wishing to engage in the production of their own whisky. The first malt whisky was distilled and casked in 1897. It quickly passed on into the hands of Highland Distillers. The history of the distillery was fairly quiet, without changing owners, but still marked by a long dormancy between 1927 and 1947.
Unlike its neighbors the Tamdhu distillery has no roof-shaped pagoda above its malt furnaces. This is one of the last distilleries to malt all of its barley on the spot by a mechanical saladin.
The Tamdhu whisky is almost completely used for the production of blended whiskies, such as The Famous Grouse, J & B and Cutty Sark. Tamdhu's traditional single malt bottling does not mention its age, but a recent addition to its product line includes a 10-year-old distillery bottling. Other single malts are sold by independent bottlers.
It was announced that as of April 2010, the Tamdhu Distillery, belonging to the Highland Distillers subsidiary of the Edrington Group, was being closed and the plant shuttered. It was then sold to Ian MacLeod Distillers in June 2011, who recommenced production of single malt in May 2013.