Glentauchers LMDW Artist - 30y
distilled 1981, bottled 2011
single cask 11/839 wine treated butt, 1981-2011  175b.

scores:
whiskybase – 86/16
malt maniacs – no score
serge v - 89

Glentauchers 30 yo 1981/2011 (58.5%, La Maison du Whisky, Artist, cask #11/839, 175 bottles) A nice new series by LMDW, with a fairly Parisian label. No I’m no Parisian. Colour: gold. Nose: to tell you the truth, the 2006 and the 2000 were only (valid!) excuses to have a go at this baby and indeed it’s just the opposite. Of course much more complex, more mature, more ‘tertiary’ and, frankly, much more interesting. Starts on some herbs liqueur, with some mint and kummel, then we have more and more earth and roots (gentian, that’s usually more to be found in the peaters in my experience), then tropical fruits (green bananas? No fruit bomb) and some vanilla. Keeps developing on leather and beeswax and then we’re back on earth. To earth? Anyway, a nice, complex and changing nose, really entertaining. Mouth: rich, creamy, starting very earthy and sweet at the same time. A funny feeling of bourbon (ginger-vanilla-corn sugar) and some bitter herbs that prevent it from getting too sweet. Cloves, liquorice wood, then cough lozenges, more candied ginger, plain grass, maybe that gentian again, bitter apples… And then more and more pepper. I like this quite a lot, but let’s try to add a few drops of water (while the nose became even earthier and more camphory): water doesn’t make much differences, maybe more citrus, grapefruits… Finish: long and more citrusy now. Ginger and Seville oranges, with always that earthiness in the background. Camphory aftertaste. Comments: a very interesting oldie. Glentauchers is no big name so it may pass unnoticed but that would be a shame. In short, if you haven’t got any Glentauchers in your bar… SGP:462 - 89 points.