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| Hello, that is one in all our (nearly) each day tastings. Santé! |
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Could 22, 2025
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Tastings de la Muerte: Glentauchers half 2
Shall we feature on at random, transferring alongside pretty shortly, if that’s alright with you…?
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Glentauchers 10 yo 2010/2020 (46%, Hepburn’s Selection, Hunter Laing, wine barrels, 581 bottles) 
Wine casks, at all times a tad alarming. Color: gold. Nostril: malt, bread, banana and strawberry jam. Pretty laden with stewed crimson berries and various confitures. Mouth: it’s cheerful and fruity, nonetheless very a lot on strawberries, rose jelly and raspberry sorbet, but the malt retains a agency maintain of the reins and prevents the entire thing from veering too far into ‘Beaujolais’ territory. End: medium in size, now with extra cherry, ham and leafy touches. Feedback: not unhealthy in any respect, we’re removed from the catastrophe we feared, strawberries however.
SGP:641 – 80 factors. |
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Glentauchers 2005/2019 (43%, Gordon & MacPhail, Distillery labels)
We’d actually loved the 2008/2023 however that one had been bottled at 46% vol. Color: white wine. Nostril: pears and apples, gooseberries, sourdough bread. Nothing a lot to complain about at this stage. Mouth: good profile, although much less exact than the nostril, with cherry stems, apples, bitter cherries, witbier and a contact of recent ginger. End: medium size, identical aromas, turning a bit extra natural. Then inexperienced tea. Feedback: nothing so as to add actually, , clear malt whisky with no main faults. Just a bit… yawn…
SGP:551 – 80 factors. |
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Glentauchers 21 yo 1992/2014 (52.7%, Duncan Taylor, Dimensions, cask #6045, 283 bottles) 
Unsure this sequence remains to be energetic at DT. Color: white wine. Nostril: taut, on inexperienced pears, apples, grass and grapefruit zest. With water: the barley emerges superbly. Beeswax, orgeat, and a faintly earthy honey. Mouth (neat): beautiful, with demerara sugar, lemon tart and orangecello. With water: again to barley, limoncello and orgeat syrup. Hints of plaster. End: medium size, wax nonetheless hanging round, discreet trace of aniseed. Orange marmalade and a saline be aware within the aftertaste. Feedback: it was a stunning bottle, however that was over… ten years in the past. My apologies.
SGP:651 – 84 factors. |
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Glentauchers 22 yo 1997/2020 (48.1%, The Whisky Baron, Renaissance, bourbon barrel, cask #3884, 124 bottles) 
A cracking sequence, these Whisky Barons. Color: greenish white wine. Some nails? Patches? Nostril: no metallic notes in sight, relatively peaches and apples, greengage jam, quince jelly, mirabelles, fougasse, patchouli and maple syrup… All very, very charming. Mouth: wonderful, taut, mineral and mentholated, then again to these splendid greengages and a few fir honey. Sudden and excellent certainly. End: medium size however with complicated spices, then heaps of fir sap and black pepper. Feedback: that inexperienced hue was a bit unsettling, however the whisky far much less so. A really fairly bottle, and one thing to have enjoyable with in good firm, because of its relatively placing verdant gown.
SGP:551 – 87 factors. |
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Glentauchers 8 yo 2013/2021 (62.6%, Franco Gasparri, The Artwork Assortment, refill bourbon, Caol Ila end, cask #800550, 221 bottles)
Warning, this little monster spent 36 months (they write ‘mounts’, however let’s assume they meant ‘months’) in ex-Caol Ila wooden. Color: white wine. Nostril: mercurochrome, ashes, lime juice and inexperienced apples. Nothing to criticise, actually. With water: identical once more. Contemporary, peaty, coastal and citrusy. Mouth (neat): very explosive and to be trustworthy, it’s rather more Caol Ila than Glentauchers. With water: much more so, it’s a stunning Caol Ila. End: lengthy, peaty, lemony, natural and medicinal. Feedback: one assumes the cask was nonetheless very ‘moist’ earlier than its remaining fill. All in all, a really charming in-cask-blended malt.
SGP:464 – 85 factors. |
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Glentauchers 6 yo 2014/2020 (53.9%, Boogieman Import, Scottish Warrior, 199 bottles)
A relatively horrifying bottle, however our soul is pure and our coronary heart courageous, so let’s go. Color: full gold. Nostril: steel polish and… steel polish, then cumin, menthol and walnut liqueur. With water: waxed fir wooden, beeswax polish, even a contact of solvent. Mouth (neat): wealthy, thick, fashionable, spicy and closely cask-driven. Ginger and cinnamon at 300 miles per hour. With water: all the things calms down, nearly turns light. Hints of paint and paraffin, plus service tree berries and holly eau-de-vie. For those who’ve by no means tasted something like this, you actually ought to. End: lengthy, barely drying, on speculoos, black tea and aubergine. Fairly a little bit of bitterness within the aftertaste. Feedback: ultra-dry, a bit loco-loco, however we relatively prefer it.
SGP:272 – 84 factors. |
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Glentauchers 8 yo 2012/2021 (61.3%, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, #63.75, 2nd Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel, ‘Ett Tropiskt Social gathering I Svenskt Norrsken’, 238 bottles)
An unique bottling for Sweden, therefore the totally incomprehensible title—except you’re completely sloshed, or a distinguished Swede, naturally. Even Ikea wouldn’t have dared. Color: white wine. Nostril: chilly espresso, and never a lot else. With water: small apples, jujubes, service berries—not terribly expressive, however elegant nonetheless. Mouth (neat): hits laborious, like uncut tutti-frutti straight off the nonetheless. Fast, fast… With water: nonetheless a bit brutal and rustic, however there are some beautiful honeyed notes too. End: lengthy, easy, sturdy, on inexperienced and white fruits. Feedback: you’d be talking near-fluent Swedish after two or three drams of this little monster, which might additionally double as antifreeze to your Volvo or that outdated Saab convertible (with leather-based seats, thoughts). However truthfully, we fairly prefer it.
SGP:461 – 82 factors. |
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Glentauchers-Glenlivet 12 yo 2007/2019 (60.0%, Cadenhead, Genuine Assortment, hogshead, 252 bottles) 
Is that this child additionally going to try to rip our heads off? Color: pale white wine. Nostril: quite simple, on apple spirit and inexperienced bananas. Nice sufficient, however nothing that’s going to win a prize in San Francisco at this stage. With water: frankly, these batches are difficult—we’re not far off antifreeze right here. Mouth (neat): nicely now, that is good, if easy, all on limoncello and apple spirit. With water: certainly, it’s fruity, quite simple, clearly outlined. Apple and lemon, with a pinch of salt. End: lengthy however a bit extra rustic. Feedback: in all probability not probably the most dazzling single malt ever bottled by humankind, however not with out its makes use of. May serve properly as a muscular decongestant or in a cocktail with unique fruit juices.
SGP:361 – 77 factors. |
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Glentauchers 21 yo 1997/2019 (54.5%, The Whisky Trade, barrel, cask #402, 182 bottles)
Right here we’ve a type of constructive premonition. Color: mild gold. Nostril: this one’s far oilier, extra austere, extra on sunflower oil and grape seed oil. It’s additionally extra elegant, one would possibly say. With water: ink, slag, fruit peelings—heavens, how charmingly austere! Mouth (neat): linseed oil, grapefruit zest, grass juice. With water: modelling clay and people bitter herbs, with an austerity verging on the Spanish Inquisition. End: lengthy, fully natural. Feedback: uncommon to discover a profile this natural and austere that continues to be so compelling; subsequent to it, Stockhausen was Céline Dion (what?)
SGP:261 – 85 factors. |
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One final one for right now (cross my coronary heart, there gained’t be one other this time, I imply not right now) …
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Glentauchers 27 yo 1996/2024 (51.1%, The Antelope Macau & Kanpakai Japan, refill barrel, cask #8003966, 181 bottles)
Color: gold. Nostril: we’re touchdown squarely in outdated fruity Speyside territory, with bananas, totally ripe Williams pears, orange cake and mead, then fairly a little bit of custard. With water: not a lot change, just some additional herbs and much more custard. Mouth (neat): that is merely wonderful, the affect of time is evident, with white pepper, honey and black tea, although the tannicity is steadily creeping up. In brief, not a finished deal but. With water: veers into dried fruit territory—longans, jujubes, dried mulberries, goji berries… However there’s additionally fairly a little bit of relatively drying wooden. All of it feels a tad undecided ultimately. End: medium in size, natural, pretty dry and a bit drying. Feedback: not the simplest buyer ultimately, except we’ve by some means missed the purpose (although I doubt it). Nonetheless, this stays a really, excellent, correctly dry outdated Speysider.
SGP:351 – 85 factors. |
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