Glentauchers 1985 11 Year Old Wilson & Morgan

Glentauchers 30 Year Old 1981 Signatory

I have not yet tried that many Glentauchers and those that I have tried were somewhat hit & miss. An 11 Year Old from the Creative Whisky Company was fish nor fowl while a 16 Year Old from G&M left me disappointed. So I was quite happy to taste the 21 Year Old from Asta Morris, but that one was released on the other side of the world. This...

Score 86/100

Glentauchers 12 Year Old 2009 Anarchy of the Lads

BYOB-C, or 'biopsy' or Bring Your Own Bottle Club, recently launched two releases that belong together, given that the labels form a beautiful whole. Anarchy of the Lads, it says on the labels. One bottle contains a 10-year-old Royal Brackla on sherry, the other a 12-year-old Glentauchers on sherry. Let's put the latter to the lips now. Hey!...

Score 85/100

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 1990

There are mediocre whiskies, there are bad whiskies. Unfortunately we ventured back into the bad territory, with a whisky that for the time being has the dubious honour of being the penultimum single malt whisky on my list. Only second to the Drumguish of the Speyside distillery, a harsh verdict indeed. Nose: waxy and salty structure: apple buns...

Score 69/100