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| Hello, that is one among our (nearly) each day tastings. Santé! |
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June 10, 2025
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We’ll cease after these previous couple of, promise – cross my coronary heart and hope to die…
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Glentauchers 10 yo 2011/2022 (62.6%, The Single Malts of Scotland, Kirsch Import unique, sherry butt, cask #900247, 492 bottles) 
Color: pale gold. Nostril: we’re not in deep sherry territory right here, somewhat we’re getting vanilla cream, white chocolate and correct Czech pilsner. However at this power, one should proceed with warning… With water: barley syrup, mushy honeys, stewed apples, it’s outstanding how water totally takes management, although fully to the whisky’s profit. Mouth (neat): very fruity but additionally distinctly youthful, with very dominant pears at this stage, and even some Black Forest kirsch. Fairly a little bit of lemon too – though not from the Black Forest. With water: now superbly balanced, fruity, orchard-driven, and pleasantly uncomplicated. End: lengthy, mild, with candied sugar and people pears nonetheless hanging about. Feedback: the power is daunting at first, however water tames it very quickly. Ultimately, it’s a delicate, docile wee child.
SGP:641 – 85 factors. |
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Glentauchers 15 yo 2008/2023 (59.6%, DH International Wine, Connoisseurs Dram, 1st fill amontillado, cask #900337, 339 bottles) 
Amontillado, that does communicate to us, doesn’t it. Color: deep gold. Nostril: quince jelly drizzled with maple syrup and honey, with the drier amontillado tones enjoying within the background – cigar packing containers and pinecones. With water: outdated furnishings newly varnished, and a contact of thuja… Mouth (neat): oh splendid, wildly expressive, medicinal, saline, with mustard and horseradish layered atop bitter oranges and a spice medley that feels most ‘Sichuan’, for those who ask me. Although be warned, it’s a bit bonkers. With water: I consider Glentauchers serves as an ideal base for this type of somewhat mad maturation. Amontillado squared. End: similar ballpark. Salt, mosses, tobacco, pepper, leather-based, mustard, walnuts and the remaining. Feedback: I detest to say this, however I do suppose this isn’t for everybody, and that it requires a somewhat sharp palate to totally take pleasure in this kind of beastie. I’m deeply – and humbly – sorry.
SGP:462 – 90 factors. |
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Glentauchers 13 yo (54.8%, Morisco Spirits, Marble Assortment, oloroso sherry, 2022)
Let me quote them, ‘The label is a element of the pavement current within the church of Santa Prassede, Rome.’ In a world more and more steered by uncultured halfwits, one can solely applaud, wouldn’t you agree? Color: gold. Nostril: right here we now have a traditional GT profile, with very ripe apple, banana and melon, alongside the subtlest touches of raspberry jam. So be it! With water: oh, a little bit of old-school polish, even some seaweed and mint – we may nearly consider ourselves on the northern coast means north of Inverness. Mouth (neat): recent, fruity, with notes of fruity, lemony beer, and fact be advised, the oloroso may be very discreet at this stage. No downside in any respect. With water: now exhibiting very properly, extra advanced, with fruits in all method of varieties, juices, compotes, jams… End: similar story. Fruit stewed with honey and candy wine. Oranges lingering on the aftertaste. Feedback: a really, very well-mannered oloroso.
SGP:551 – 87 factors. |
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Glentauchers 13 yo 2009/2022 (53.8%, Whiskyjace, Artwork Version #5, bourbon barrel)
We will’t assist however be deeply keen on the Nineteen Fifties/60s jazz vibe of the label. Color: pale white wine. Nostril: pure fruit, resting on chalk and grist. Apples, pears, small berries, yellow melons, mild beer. With water: we edge nearer to the earth, to the barley itself… Mouth (neat): totally barley-forward with yellow fruits, and simply two drops of Chartreuse. With water: faint touches of pencil shavings, even perhaps pencil lead. Now that’s amusing. End: medium size, leaning in the direction of apple and mushy, fruity beer. Feedback: proper the place we anticipated it to land.
SGP:551 – 86 factors. |
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Glentauchers 10 yo 2013/2023 (58.6%, The Whisky Change, The Seasons: Spring, barrel, cask #800435)
Nicely accomplished, London, apples in springtime, that’s really a city-dweller’s notion. A minimum of if we go by the label, however in fact we love London and the Londoners, as all Frenchmen do. Color: pale white wine. Sylvaner (ha). Nostril: easy, pinpoint-precise, on chalk and apples, with just a few hints of pistachio. You couldn’t be nearer to the distillate, it nearly feels just like the barrel was product of stainless-steel. With water: similar story. Chalk, sourdough, lemon, cider apple. Mouth (neat): oh, taut and completely fruity. Rhubarb, inexperienced apple, lime. I’m telling you, there’s no arguing with this. With water: little pears descend en masse, like a flock of gulls on sardines (copyright Eric Cantona). End: medium in size however pure, brimming with barley, honey and apples. Feedback: malt whisky as Nature supposed. For a wee ten-year-old, it’s very good.
SGP:651 – 86 factors. |
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Glentauchers 1996/2018 (52.3%, Or Sileis, Legends, The Arthurian Tales, bourbon, cask #618, 199 bottles) 
Color: pale gold. Nostril: oh, right here’s a pleasant mushy mustard with yellow melon and candy woodruff. It’s uncommon and totally charming. With water: faint touches of pure rubber, jasmine, perfumed sticky rice – all issues we completely adore. Mouth (neat): sheer magnificence, tangerines and citrus peels (additionally a whisper of cleaning soap – completely no problem at this stage). With water: a touch of salinity, waxes, paraffin, lotus blossom… End: not significantly lengthy however superbly fermentary. Floral wine and tiny berries. Feedback: I’d genuinely like to know whether or not our Taiwanese mates chosen this cask for its ‘Far Japanese’ inflections. What I’m saying might be whole nonsense, however I stand by it. An excellent Glentauchers, in any case.
SGP:551 – 88 factors. |
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Glentauchers 20 yo 1996/2016 (49.1%, Single Cask Assortment, bourbon barrel, cask #3620, 173 bottles) 
We’re admittedly very late to this one, however right here we’re in Austria! Color: straw. Nostril: right here we discover the mild, balanced character of bourbon cask maturation on a malt whisky with, let’s consider, a reasonably expressive persona. Apple, vanilla, the faintest touches of glue, melon, banana… With water: hints of sourdough, muesli… Mouth (neat): not a lot so as to add, fruity beers, nearly younger calvados, a really slight contact of cedarwood and rosewater… With water: it’s mushy, easy, honeyed and malty. End: medium in size, on fruity beer and mead. Feedback: not fairly Mozart, but it surely’s superb.
SGP:551 – 84 factors. |
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Proper then, it’s in all probability excessive time we loved one final Glentauchers, for this yr no less than, and maybe even past. It’s a high quality malt, one which the most effective indie bottlers can actually get essentially the most out of, however can we really say it has a daring, distinctive character? Then once more, tasting forty of them kind of back-to-back in all probability doesn’t make an entire lot of sense. In any case, it’s in all probability all my fault. Come on then, let’s choose an outdated bottle to complete with…
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Glentauchers 21 yo 1975/1997 (55.69%, Signatory Classic, cask #8888, 306 bottles) 
Naturally, this was ‘matured in an oak cask’ and so forth. In different phrases, the nice outdated days, when everybody cared extra about distillates than about these blasted casks we’ve been listening to about advert nauseam for the previous fifteen years or extra. That mentioned, you’ll have famous the sumptuous cask quantity, #8888. Color: pale gold. Nostril: way more austere than anticipated, leaning on grape should, banana pores and skin and apple peelings, with a touch of darkish ale and two squares of chocolate. Aromatically talking, it’s on the restrained aspect at this stage. With water: similar once more. I concern we might have missed our window, no less than so far as these Glentauchers are involved. Mouth (neat): somewhat unbelievable, patchouli, rosewater, cigarettes, rosehip tisane… With water: no, it’s fairly alright, with some good figs for example, but it surely’s frankly missing in character. There’s even a faint dustiness. End: one thing of a downward spiral, the power drops away, and it turns into a contact cardboardy. Barely stale apple juice. Feedback: this one might need turn out to be a bit passé, there’s not an excessive amount of pleasure left available right here, although in fact it’s nonetheless a correct outdated malt whisky.
SGP:441 – 75 factors. |
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Proper then, no regrets, we’ll transfer on to one thing else as of tomorrow. Don’t fear, that’s it for the Glentauchers, for fairly a while. In any case, we’ve had 43 of them in just some days, I feel that’s greater than sufficient.
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Ah certainly, the little podium, as foolishly promised:
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| Glentauchers 33 yo 1993/2024 (51.9%, OB for The Whisky Change, Misplaced in Time, refill American oak barrels, cask #5218, 108 bottles) |
| WF90 |
| Glentauchers 15 yo 2008/2023 (59.6%, DH International Wine, Connoisseurs Dram, 1st fill amontillado, cask #900337, 339 bottles) |
| WF89 |
| Glentauchers 19 yo 2002-2005/2024 (57.1%, Decadent Drams, 1st fill bourbon and 1st fill sherry, 138 bottles) |
| Glentauchers 24 yo 1996/2020 (49.7%, Asta Morris, bourbon, cask #AM139, 186 bottles) |
| Glentauchers 23 yo 1997/2021 (53.2%, The Single Malts of Scotland, barrel, cask #401, 157 bottles) |
| Glentauchers 15 yo 2009/2025 (54.6%, Whisky Age, 1st fill bourbon barrel, cask #800647, 233 bottles) |
| Glentauchers 2008/2024 (51.7%, Liquid Artwork, tenth Anniversary, sherry oak, 96 bottles) |
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