Tormore 2012-2019 - 7 Year Old - Hepburns Choice - Single Cask

Completed in 1959, Tormore was the first new distillery built in Scotland in the 20th century. Tormore's distillery buildings are endearingly incongruous neoclassical agglomerations of granite and glass with verdigris copper rooftops and a musical clock, in front of which some modest topiary and an almost apologetic water feature face directly onto the A95 a stone’s throw from Cragganmore. 

Tormore is one of the quietest distilleries in Speyside in terms of bottlings, with former owners Pernod Ricard reserving the vast majority of its output for their Chivas Brothers subsidiary’s portfolio of blended whiskies. Official bottlings of Tormore are scarce but in the last few years a string of strikingly good long-aged casks of late 1980s and early 1990s vintage Tormore have appeared from indie bottlers.

In June 2022 it was announced that Pernod Ricard had sold Tormore to Elixir Distillers, from whom they had bought The Whisky Exchange the previous November.