Glentauchers 27 Years Old 1991 Connoisseurs Choice (56.8%, Gordon & MacPhail, 1st Fill Sherry Butt #6943, 473 Bottles, 2018)

• ABV: 56.8 %
• Age: 27 Years Old
• Bottling: Gordon & MacPhail, Connoisseurs Choice, 1st Fill Sherry Butt, Cask #6943
• Category: Speyside single malt scotch whisky
• Cost: £199.95
• Origin: Glentauchers distillery
• Vintage: 1991

What they say

Official tasting notes:

What I say

Distilled at Glentauchers in 1991 and matured for 27 years before bottling in 2018 as part of Gordon & MacPhail’s Connoisseurs Choice range/cask stregth selection at 56.8% ABV. I originally got into Glentauchers from G&M’s distillery label bottlings which always impressed me, so great to try out a single cask at cask strength from htem.

My tasting notes:

• Appearance: Amber gold  (11/20), medium-fine tears, fine legs.
• Nose: Sweet and syrupy, leather, fudge, sticky golden syrup, touch solventy and woody pear and apple fruits in vanilla custard, creme brulee, errs on the burnt sugars side.
• Taste: Zesty with a touch of flint minerality, mixed peels, tobacco leaf, woody, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, caramelised sugars, cask char, wood smoke and mocha coffee.
• Finish: Medium, dark chocolate mocha coffee and raisins.

Overall

Full of dark smoke and wood, not too fruity and a little mineralic/flinty make for a rather unusual but enjoyable expression.

Score 86/100

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