Tomatin 14 Year Old Caribbean Rum Cask
May 2025

Tomatin 14 Year Old Caribbean Rum Cask

Luxuriously finished in the finest Caribbean rum casks from the renowned rum havens of Guadeloupe, Barbados, and Jamaica. Made by Tomatin, winners of two Best In Shows and two separate near-perfect 99/100 scores. Created Exclusively for The Whisky Club. Yum.

United Kingdom

Colour Bright gold

Nose Tropical fruit Danish with lemon curd, desiccated coconut and spiced chocolate.

Palate Toasted banana bread, creamy lemon cheesecake, sea salt and a lingering demerara sugar finish.

Overview

 Look closely and you’ll notice three surprising little words on this rare Highland Scotch: Guadeloupe - Barbados - Jamaica. 

That’s because this 14-year-old, non-chill filtered, no-colour-added Highland single malt has been luxuriously finished in rum barrels from these islands – some of the most prized rum havens in the Caribbean. 

In fact, this might be the only time you’ll ever see them on a bottle of Highland single malt Scotch whisky, let alone taste the velvety rich and smooth rum-matured results, positively heaving with notes of butter-soaked toasted banana bread, crunchy Demerara sugar and creamy lemon cheesecake.

And it’s only for you and our fellow Whisky Clubbers.

The proper craft Highland distillery you’re about to fall in love with (if you haven’t already), Tomatin is doing everything right for whisky geeks like us. Every day they:

  • Max out on fruits with the longest whiskymaking ferments in Scotland
  • Perfectly nail cask influence thanks to the World's Best ​Master Cooper (World Whiskies Awards 2025)
  • Find the rarest wood from round the world with dedicated cask hunters

All this means they've been cleaning up at shows, too – including two Best In Shows and two separate near-perfect 99/100 scores. 

For our unique, one-off batch, Tomatin has doubled down on its mega-fruity nature with a lush maturation in the best Caribbean rum casks they could get their hands on, all under the watchful eye of their award-winning Master Cooper.

If you’re hoping to Double Up, please place your request as early as possible. The last time we featured a Tomatin Whisky of the Month was four long years ago, when we received record-breaking numbers of desperate pleas for more. Funnily enough, the last time we dropped a rum cask Whisky of the Month, it was also so ridiculously popular we broke our own rules and made a second batch later on to keep everyone happy – but sadly, that’s definitely not an option this time with these unique rum casks!

We’re rumbling with excitement to share this with you: this is why you Whisky Club.

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THE SPECS

Price: $135.00

Age: 14 Years Old

ABV: 46.0%

Maturation: Finished in Caribbean Rum Casks: 26% Jamaica Rum Barrels, 36% Barbados Rum Barrels, and 38% Guadeloupe Rum Barrels

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Tomatin's History

Tomatin is a remote Highland distillery located up in the Monadhliath Mountains near Inverness in Scotland. At 315 metres above sea level, it’s also one of the highest distilleries in Scotland after Dalwhinnie, about 40 miles South West.

Like many distilleries, illicit distillation was said to have taken place on the site well before the distillery was officially established, it's said whisky had been made there as far back as the 15th Century. In fact, the name Tomatin translates to "Hill of the Juniper Bush" - with juniper wood being the wood of choice for use in secret distilleries, due to the fact that it gives off no smoke...

The distillery, known then as the Tomatin Spey District Distillery Ltd, was officially established in 1897 during the height of the Victorian Whisky Boom. Despite the elevation and apparent isolation, the site was rather a good one for a distillery, being nearby a newly built railway, and it's just 29km south of Inverness. Not to mention the constant supply of soft, Highland water from the Alt na Frith.

Predictably though, Tomatin suffered during the ensuing industry-wide bust brought about by the collapse of flamboyant blenders, Pattinsons Ltd. The team managed to ride out the worst of the bust but eventually filed for bankruptcy in 1906. A new consortium stepped in, and by 1909 it was business as usual at the renamed Tomatin Distillery Co Ltd.

The next forty years or so were fairly uneventful until the 1950s when Scotch whisky once again entered a boom. This boom however lasted nearly 30 years and set the foundation for whisky as we know it today, and Tomatin was right at the front of this charge.

Seeing early signs of good times ahead, the enterprising folks at Tomatin started thinking big, really big. In 1956 they doubled their stills from two to four, then added another two in 1958 and by 1974, boasting 23 stills, Tomatin was the largest distillery in Scotland producing a vast 12 million litres of spirit annually. To put this in context, it was (in production terms at least) larger even than Roseisle, Diageo’s $80million mega-distillery. This period also saw the emergence of single malts for the first time and while the majority of the whisky made at Tomatin was sold in bulk for use in well-known blended whiskies such as J&B, Chivas Regal and Johnnie Walker, it was also one of the few distilleries to offer a single malt, initially a 5 year Old, and later also a 10 Year Old.

Unfortunately the success and expansion of Tomatin was also its demise. Rapid expansion exposed it to risk and while it managed to weather most of the early 1980s recession, it finally went bust in 1984. Fortunately help was close at hand in the form of Tomatin’s biggest customer, Takara Shuzo Co., who also happened to be Japan’s largest drinks producer. Japan, like the USA, had exited the recession early and Takara Shuzo Co. seized the opportunity to become the first Japanese company to fully own a Scottish distillery. By 1986 it was once again business as usual at Tomatin.

Whisky making is a way of life at Tomatin with more than eighty percent of the work force living at the distillery. Back in 1897 the distillery’s remote location meant there was no access to a local workforce, so the architect included a number of houses to accommodate workers and their families. Over the years the distillery has added more houses and today the settlement of Tomatin has 30 houses, many of which have now been inhabited by several generations of the same family, all working together at the distillery.

In terms of production, Tomatin is still one of Scotland’s top 10 malt whisky distilleries, despite eleven of the stills being decommissioned in 2000, and boasts, in addition to its own village; an onsite cooperage, 14 warehouses, a vast reserve of maturing whisky and an unwavering focus on producing excellent Highland single malt.

In 2013 Tomatin launched the peated Cù Bòcan single malt, that's produced during the last week of the year.

Their efforts are certainly not in vain if the recent string of awards are anything to go by, with Tomatin Decades II receiving a Master award medal at The Spirits Business - Scotch Whisky Masters Competition in June 2021. Tomatin Legacy won Double Gold at the 2021 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, along with the 12, 14, and 30 Year Olds, and their Global Travel Retail range also bringing home Gold. The team’s dedication to whisky excellence was recognised and celebrated at the 2016 Icons of Whisky Awards, when their industry peers voted Tomatin ‘Distillery of the Year’.

Having been the biggest, Tomatin is now well and truly on its way to being the best.

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Distillery Facts

Region: Highlands

Origin: Tomatin, Inverness, Inverness-Shire, IV13 7YT, Scotland, United Kingdom

Founded: 1897

Water Source: Alt-na Frith

Washbacks: 12, Stainless Steel

Stills: 6 wash and 6 spirit

Capacity: 5,000,000 litres per annum

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