This Tomintoul 12 Year Old ‘Portwood finish’ is more or less the standard 10 Year Old which spent an extra 20 months on Port barrels. It says limited edition on the label but it has been around for almost five years, if I’m not mistaken.
Notice the new bottle design?
Tomintoul 12 yo ‘Portwood finish’
(46%, OB 2014)
Tomintoul 12 yo ‘Portwood finish’Nose: starts a little restrained on sugared breakfast cereals, before showing strawberries and cream. Plum compote. Red berries and milk chocolate. Hints of toast. Not bad actually, sweet, fruity, fragrant and quite easy-going.
Mouth: rather soft. Quite fat and creamy. Strawberry jam and pomegranate syrup. Sweetened cranberry juice. Cinnamon and raisins. Also a few peppery notes and muscovado sugar.
Finish: a little short, but still rather fruity. In the very end also a drier, nutty note.
In general I’m not a big fan of these strawberry notes, they can be a little ‘synthetic’, but this is actually one of the nicer examples of Port finishing. Around € 40.
Score: 81/100