Glentauchers 1976 24 Year Old First Cask #7654

Glentauchers 8 Year Old 2009 Asta Morris for Malt Monkeys

This is not the first Glentauchers bottled by Asta Morris, although the previous release was a lot older (and bottled for the Japanese importer Gaia Flow). This young one from 2009 was drawn from a PX cask for the Malt Monkeys (a whisky club in Belgium). I do expect some dark fruit. And a malt that is a bit quirky. After all, it was ‘Crazy Bert’...

Score 85/100

Glentauchers 11 Year Old Cadenhead Warehouse

In November 2022 I participated in the Cadenhead Warehouse tasting at Spirits in the Sky, the best whisky festival in the Benelux. Cameron, Cadenhead's ambassador, brought cask samples of stuff that has not yet been bottled (maybe in the meantime, that might be the case, I didn’t double-check) and maybe won't ever be bottled. Anyway, there was an...

Score 85/100

Glentauchers 1989 Cadenhead - Small Batch 25yo

This is from the ‘Small Batch’ release from Oct ’14 if I remember correctly. I had never tried a Glentauchers before, but am far more likely to go out on a limb and try a smaller distillery if it is bottled by my favorite indie specialist, W.M Cadenhead. The colour is quite a deep amber, darker than most ex-Bourbon cask Scotches I’ve come across....

Score 88/100

Glentauchers 18 Year Old 1996 Whisky-Fässle

This Glentauchers (say 'glen-tock-ers') was bottled by the German Indie Whisky-Fässle and released in 2014. After reading these notes, you will agree that it was a good thing that this single bourbon barrel at cask strength did not disappear in Ballantine's, Chivas Regal or Teacher's Highland Cream. The nose is very similar to the Glentauchers...

Score 85/100