Tomatin distillery

So then I got to Oban and that was just brilliant, a really amazing team, the operators there, so that's quite nervous, like first I'd done a tiny bit of management but first, now this is a senior management role, managing managers and I was the youngest person on the entire site but I was the boss but the team were just brilliant, absolutely brilliant you know.

And so what do you, we had Jamie Muir on a couple of weeks ago from Tomatin and he was sort of talking about that being young in positions like a distillery that's an old school distillery that's been there for hundreds of years or whatever, over a hundred years.

It's like, what can you do or what do you have to do every day?

But that's the same as, and this is true of All distilleries, and sometimes people are quite critical of the older and slightly bigger distilleries saying, oh, they're not innovating enough or they're not changing things.

So that's why new people can come in and older people can leave without losing the spirit, because there's people there who are a bit forgotten about, sadly, but it's the people that are actually touching the liquid.

They're the ones that are conserving the recipe.

There's someone at Tomatin who's worked at the distillery for 40, 50 years.

Oh, yeah.

Because I was

thinking, Tomatin brought out their cask series, and I know that it was in one of those, but they've obviously, and I think they've done Portugal, I think they've done France, I think.

Anyway, there you go, France originally.

Nice.

First ever lauter, fully lauter tun ma- uh, lauter system mash tun.

Was that at Tomatin?

Yeah, we've stood inside it.

Yeah.

But actually as we've gone, the world is influencing it.

And, and, and even today it's got a strong influence.

Well, even the, again, it was Jamie Muir, who's the manager of, the distillery manager at Tomatin, was saying on this podcast, saying things like, um, you know, the, the snowfall that they're getting now-

Mm-hmm

And then still need an excuse every once in a while to drink scotch and the Pines with Jack podcast is always one of those.

So I've got a Tomatin 12 single year malt Highlands based scotch and very excited to drink this.

Oh, the pastor I work with is a single malt scotch guy, so I'll have to mention that to him when I see him tomorrow.

He'll be impressed.