Glentauchers 15 Year Old 1996 Dimensions Duncan Taylor

Glentauchers 18 Year Old 1996 Highland Laird

Glentauchers is not exactly a beautiful distillery. The home of the famous Black & White is a veritable factory that produces bulk malt for the blenders. It can easily be found with independent bottlers, though. This week I will put three head-to-head, all of the 18 years old and at cask strength. Let’s start with this one from Bartel...

Score 84/100

Glentauchers 14 Year Old 2003 Dun Bheagan

The vast majority of Glentauchers, together with Miltonduff and Glenburgie, go into the well-known blend Ballantine's. Official bottlings can be counted on one hand, but the independent bottlers can relatively easily get their hands on single casks. In 2018, Ian Macleod Distillers launched this 14-year-old sherry cask in their well-known Dun...

Score 84/100

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 13 Year Old 2009 for MMM

Glentauchers is a lesser-known Speysider – founded in 1897 – that mainly focuses on producing malt whisky for making blends with Ballantine's being the best known. There are hardly any official bottlings, but through independent bottlers you can occasionally taste it. Now Manny and I have found a fantastic cask – a sherry butt, by the way – with...

Score 86/100