Tullibardine is a distillery that has only recently penetrated drinkers consciousnesses. This is due to the change of ownership in 2003 and the subsequent renewed effort to promote it as a single malt. Before this it was just another largely unknown blending beast owned by Whyte & MacKay. Since the new ownership has taken over they have worked hard to bring the distillery back up to full capacity and simultaneously expand the range. While they have released some fine bottlings, we all look forward to the day when the new spirit they have produced themselves come of age.

Tullibardine was expanded with a second pair of stills in 1971 and this no doubt altered the distillate slightly but it is very difficult to examine such things form a distillery with such a sporadic output.

Some of the finest Tullibardine bottlings are official, sherry cask ones from the late sixties. Bottlings like the single cask 1966 were dark, fulsome drams, full of sherry characters like balsamico, spice, dates, almonds, smoky bacon and dark stewed fruits. They were largely fantastic but fairly divorced from the naked distillate character of Tullibaridine.