If you’ve been reading our PR Corner and news digests posted every Friday you probably heard about the latest addition to the Tomatin Range: the company has expanded The Cù Bòcan brand range with another limited edition: the Sherry edition. With the standard edition comprising Sherry, Virgin Oak and Bourbon casks, this is the first of three limited editions highlighting the flavours derived from each cask type. Fully matured in first fill Sherry butts, There are only 6000 bottles available and it is expected to retail at £49.99 in specialist retailers.
So, a young NAS sherry dram, must be a sherry bomb, right? Well, not necessarily as Tomatin demonstrates in this lovely young malt:
Cù Bòcan Sherry Cask, NAS, 46.0%,£49
Nose: Lovely Tomatin DNA with smoke and sweet dough , spices and soft fruit : ripe fig and nuts. I guess the sherry really toned down the peat. Actually it’s much lighter than I had anticipated for a young sherry NAS. Which is very nice. The right balance.
Palate: yum. A very nice sweet and sugary entry , then the smoke shines adding a lovely dimension to the fruit and sweetness. Demerara sugar, jam, but not thick PX style more lightly sweetish with cinnamon and spices getting peppery and malty. Very nice addition – sherry wise but not overpowering the malt skeleton. Good balance again. More smoke than the nose.
Finish : smoke. Sugared and salted nuts. Malt and bitter oak with plenty of spices
This is a surprisingly good dram, for a young NAS sherry cask. Not as concentrated as expected, but lighter, with keeping some lovely sherry influence, such as cinnamon and dried fruit, with the smoke integrated nicely, but not playing first fiddle.
It’s not the most complex dram, but it’s very very drinkable, and more-ish, and I like it. Good stuff, no doubt. Tomatin are on a roll, and we like it.
Score: 86/100
official sample provided by Tomatin.
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