Glentauchers 19 Year Old Decadent Drams v02 & v05 100 Proof Speyside Single Malt Whisky (2024) 70cl

1 of 138 bottles

This is a 19 year old Glentauchers single malt. We made it by muddling together a 2002 1st fill barrel of Glentauchers with a 2005 1st fill sherry butt of Glentauchers.

The barrel got tipped in on top of the butt nearly two years ago, we bottled half that mix as Whisky Sponge Edition No.82 about a year ago, and now, we’ve decided it’s time to bottle the remainder of this mix. As such, here is Glentauchers 19 year old Decadent Drams!

We bottled this with very slight reduction from cask strength at our favourite bottling strength of 57.1%. After an extra year in the sherry butt, with loads of headspace relative to the volume of whisky, the result is a hugely juicy and well-sherried, properly mature Glentauchers. Full of fruits, rich sherry notes, spices and waxiness.

It’s despicably, decadently delicious stuff, and you should buy one for yourself and another for yourself and one for a pal. And one for your cat. Buy a cat if you need to in order to undertake that final instruction.

TASTING NOTES

Nose: A broad-spectrum fruitiness, but with a lot of quince, Mirabelle, damsons and marmalade, the sherry influence is very clear and wonderfully rich. In the background there are waxes, spices and exotic fruit teas.

Palate: A superbly full, rich and satisfying dram. Big sherry character, but well tamed by the bourbon component. Loads of treacle, fruit cake, more waxes, some green fruits, honeycomb and a wonderful leathery, earthy note.

Finish: Long, full of breads, chocolate, honey, leather and wax.

57.1% ABV

70cl