Single Malt
Purchase Price: $20
Place of Purchase: Unknown - Somewhere near Stockbridge, MA
Rating: 7.6
I saw Tomatin for the first time sitting on a shelf in some random liquor store out in the wilds of Western Massachusetts. With a cool black label (very rare for this category for some reason) and a price of exactly one $20 bill, I had absolutely no compunction about grabbing a bottle. Well, the verdict is that Tomatin is a strange malt, possessing an element of bicycle tire rubber that makes you think you've been stranded in the sporting goods department of Kmart again. Now, normally that would get anyone other than maybe Eddy Merckx pedaling the other way, but surprisingly enough this whisky manages to offset that bizarre note with a lot of really pleasant layers of "normal" things like malt and heather and toffee. Still, it’s pretty hard to reconcile all that with the feeling of "biting down hard on an inner tube for no reason," so approach with caution.
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