Comments on: Tamnavulin 12 Year http://www.humiblog.com/great-drinks/tamnavulin-12-year/ If you love a good cigar, you'll enjoy my cigar review blog. Sat, 25 Sep 2010 17:55:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: george thorsen http://www.humiblog.com/great-drinks/tamnavulin-12-year/#comment-887 george thorsen Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:33:32 +0000 http://www.humiblog.com/great-drinks/tamnavulin-12-year/#comment-887 My wife and I are devoted scotch drinkers. We traveled through New Hampshire which has the best liquor stores and prices in the New England area. We have just opened our bottle of Tamnavulin 12 year old. As usual, we took out first sip in snifter glasses. The taste is excellent. Rich and true. Quintessential single malt. This is about as far away from Islay as you can get. Thank God! I tried to read up on the brand's history but it is a bit mirky mentioning something about a closed distillery. Oh well, closed or not, it's sublime and reasonably priced (for a single malt). My wife and I are devoted scotch drinkers. We traveled through New Hampshire which has the best liquor stores and prices in the New England area. We have just opened our bottle of Tamnavulin 12 year old. As usual, we took out first sip in snifter glasses. The taste is excellent. Rich and true. Quintessential single malt. This is about as far away from Islay as you can get. Thank God! I tried to read up on the brand’s history but it is a bit mirky mentioning something about a closed distillery. Oh well, closed or not, it’s sublime and reasonably priced (for a single malt).

]]> By: fred dick http://www.humiblog.com/great-drinks/tamnavulin-12-year/#comment-796 fred dick Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:48:30 +0000 http://www.humiblog.com/great-drinks/tamnavulin-12-year/#comment-796 The distillery dates from 1966 and there have been three pairs of stills in use since the start. One fine aspect of modern distilleries is the efficiency they achieve. The distillery dates from 1966 and there have been three pairs of stills in use since the start. One fine aspect of modern distilleries is the efficiency they achieve.

]]> By: Olias http://www.humiblog.com/great-drinks/tamnavulin-12-year/#comment-25 Olias Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:52:27 +0000 http://www.humiblog.com/great-drinks/tamnavulin-12-year/#comment-25 I was in Scotland in 2004, and I had done some research before going, on Scotch reviews. I decided on a brand called Lagavulin to bring back, and went into a liquor store in Scotland. Actually, it was a Department store with a Liquor department! Imagine THAT in the US! So I asked for a bottle of Lagavulin (which was about 40 pounds, which was about $80 US at the time), and the proprietor said, "Before you spend your 40 pounds on that, I want you to blind-taste-test it against two others, and tell me what you think." He had a table set up, like one you would see in a wine shop for wine tasting, and he poured me three shots of Scotch. I tried all three, with a bit of oyster cracker in between to cleanse my palate, and I said "I can't decide which of these two I like better, but they're both better than the third." It turns out the two I liked were called Tamnavulin and Benromach (17 pounds each, or about $34 US) and the one I DIDN'T like as much (still very good, just not as good as the other two) was the 40 pound/$80 Lagavulin. So I bought BOTH of the other two (34 pounds/$68 US) for less than what I would have spent on the single bottle that I didn't like as much. I thought that was really nice of the guy to let me taste them before buying, and as a result he sold TWO bottles, and I got to bring the two home. I was in Scotland in 2004, and I had done some research before going, on Scotch reviews.
I decided on a brand called Lagavulin to bring back, and went into a liquor store in Scotland. Actually, it was a Department store with a Liquor department! Imagine THAT in the US!
So I asked for a bottle of Lagavulin (which was about 40 pounds, which was about $80 US at the time), and the proprietor said, “Before you spend your 40 pounds on that, I want you to blind-taste-test it against two others, and tell me what you think.” He had a table set up, like one you would see in a wine shop for wine tasting, and he poured me three shots of Scotch. I tried all three, with a bit of oyster cracker in between to cleanse my palate, and I said “I can’t decide which of these two I like better, but they’re both better than the third.”
It turns out the two I liked were called Tamnavulin and Benromach (17 pounds each, or about $34 US) and the one I DIDN’T like as much (still very good, just not as good as the other two) was the 40 pound/$80 Lagavulin.
So I bought BOTH of the other two (34 pounds/$68 US) for less than what I would have spent on the single bottle that I didn’t like as much.

I thought that was really nice of the guy to let me taste them before buying, and as a result he sold TWO bottles, and I got to bring the two home.

]]> By: The Cigar Intelligence Agency http://www.humiblog.com/great-drinks/tamnavulin-12-year/#comment-10 The Cigar Intelligence Agency Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:17:00 +0000 http://www.humiblog.com/great-drinks/tamnavulin-12-year/#comment-10 <strong>Tamnavulin 12 Year...</strong> We should do more on this site like this review of Tamnavulin 12 Year scotch, submitted by a new member to our Cigar Blogs section, Humiblog....... Tamnavulin 12 Year…

We should do more on this site like this review of Tamnavulin 12 Year scotch, submitted by a new member to our Cigar Blogs section, Humiblog…….

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