Chapter 7 Monologue 31 Year Old Tormore 1990 Scotch Whisky

A more-than-mature 31YO single cask beauty — the oldest ever bottled by Chapter 7.

Chapter 7 Whisky operates on one simple premise — each cask of Whisky is unique. The wood, age, temperature, its location in the rick-house… everything tells its own story. Large Scotch producers marry casks in large vats before bottling so that the master blender can try to make them all taste the same. The folks at Chapter 7 Whisky think that’s a shame. Chapter 7 is the brainchild of Selim Evin. He thinks that each cask should tell its own unique tale, so he travels to Scotland and Ireland to hand-select single casks from the inventories of the world’s greatest distilleries. Then he custom bottles each one with its own story. How many bottles, you ask? Well, until the barrel is empty.

Chapter 7 Monologue 31 Year Old Tormore 1990 Scotch Whisky is the oldest expression that Chapter 7 has ever bottled. It was distilled in 1990 at the Tormore distillery and only 239 bottles were yielded in 2021. Tormore Single Malts are part of the Chivas Brothers portfolio but these revered bottles are quite rare. This exquisite 31-year-old was aged in 1st-fill Bourbon barrels and bottled at 102.4 proof. The palate is mineral and fruity, packed with grapefruit, barley, wood, and rhubarb. The flavors had plenty of time to fully develop and you can definitely tell.