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One cask of Tamdhu Single Malt Scotch Whisky distilled in 1989 currently maturing at Ian McLeod Distillers in Scotland. Annual storage fees currently stand at £29.20 + VAT per year and the new owner must make arrangements directly with the warehouse after the sale. Contact details will be given by the current cask owner.
This cask was re-gauged 18/03/2026. The new re-gauged litres were found to be approximately 136.4 bulk litres at a strength of 59%. This would currently yield approximately 194 x 70cl bottles of cask strength whisky, currently 36 years old.
- Distillery: Tamdhu
- Originally filled: 29/9/1989
- Current age: 36 year old
- Cask number: 8110
- Original filled with: 165.8 litres of alcohol
- Original bulk litres: 260.0 litres
- Original strength: 63.6%
- Current new bulk litres: 136.4 litres
- Current new litres of alcohol: 81.3 litres
- Current cask strength: 59%
- Currently yielding: Approximately 194 x 70cl bottles
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Whisky-Online Auctions Tasting Notes:Tamdhu 1989 - Cask 8110 - 59%
Nose: Soft pink candyfloss with heather honey and very delicate minerality in the background. Some gentle beeswax and a touch of lemon rind and a suggestion of grapefruit. Understated, but complex.
Palate: Single cream feel with more citrus from lemon and lime syrup followed by floral cordials and baking spices. Some ginger and cinnamon add a welcome dimension to the dram that then provides spongy pineapple upside down cake and a soft fizz of natural melonade.
Finish: Again slightly understated but complex nicely balancing notes from the nose and palate with added fruit from mango and pair.
Comments: A very pleasant summer whisky seamlessly delivering both light and complex flavours. Given the age we would suggest the cask has done its job, this one is for impressing folk on the summer lawn as soon as possible.
The Tamdhu distillery has been well-stewarded by owners Ian MacLeod Distillers since they acquired it from Edrington Distillers in 2011. As Edrington’s portfolio also included Highland Park and Macallan, Tamdhu had been given little opportunity to shine, and was mothballed in 2009. Under Ian MacLeod, Tamdhu has been revitalised, with a small but popular core range and frequent single cask and limited edition whiskies including a 1963 50-year-old.
Tamdhu’s great strength is an affinity for sherry casks that, combined with the excellence of the distillery’s spirit, make Tamdhu’s whisky ideal for long maturation. In recent years the quality and success of official releases have increased Tamdhu’s prestige, although whisky fans of a certain age have long been aware of Tamdhu’s potential thanks to superb indie bottlings of vintages from the 1950s and 1960s from the likes of Cadenhead’s, Kingsbury and Duncan Taylor.
A private bottling is a cask of single malt or single grain whisky that has been bottled privately by its owner or owners, and usually bottles are not released for public sale. Private bottlings may sometimes be bottled for their owners by the distillery of origin, but are not official bottlings by that distillery.
Alternatively, if the cask is not housed at the distillery where it was made, it may be bottled either by another distillery or private cask storage facility, or transported to a third party commercial bottler.
Private bottlings used to be relatively common, a legacy of the whisky lake of the 1980s, when distilleries had excess stock and were desperate to offload their inventory. These kinds of casks rarely make it to private bottlings nowadays - casks that were very inexpensive twenty or thirty years ago have shot up in value, and distilleries have scrambled to buy back privately-owned casks of their own spirit, while cask owners are rarely short of offers from brokers or independent bottlers.
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