Release No: 16
Glentauchers 15 Yrs
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A very interesting and fairly complex dram, but still easy going.
| Region | Speyside |
| Distilled | 03.04.2009 |
| Bottling Date | 21.10.2024 |
| Cask | #800718 |
| ABV | 48.8% |
| Matured at | Auchtermuchty |
| Age | 15 |
| Bottled at | KY15 7BU |
| Notes | Refill American Oak HHD |
| Bottles in batch | 260 |
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Vanilla butter cream cookies. Malty, accompanied by milk chocolate and a fresh note of lemon zest. In the background a very light savoury note, umami-like, as beef bouillon. Imagine braising meat in butter. A very interesting and fairly complex dram, but still easy going. Versatile too, as it comes to pairing with food. Oxtail soup will enhance the umami, whereas lemon cake will lift up the citrus notes.
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A little piece of history
Speyside distillery started to produce in 1990 but its history goes back to 1956 when George Christie acquired a piece of land near Kingussie. He commissioned dry stone dyker Alex Fairlie to hand build a distillery on the site, which work commenced in 1962. It took 28 years to complete the works, during which time the distillery changes ownership. The company was taken over two more times and is now owned by Harvey’s of Edinburgh International.
In 2025 production will cease altogether, the buildings will be taken down and a new distillery (which will bear a different name) will arise about 20 miles from the current site. So, all Speyside single malts bottled by Saltire will come from a ‘lost’ distillery, which makes these expressions truly Rare!
Water source
River Tromie
Malt source
Commercial maltsters.
Capacity
600,000 litres of alcohol per annum
Location
Kingussie, Highlands
Map (source googlemaps.com)
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1 semi-lauter mash tun (4.2 ton)
6 stainless steel washbacks
fermentation time 70 hours short and 120
hours long1 wash still
1 spirit still
Vanilla butter cream cookies. Malty, accompanied by milk chocolate and a fresh note of lemon zest. In the background a very light savoury note, umami-like, as beef bouillon. Imagine braising meat in butter. A very interesting and fairly complex dram, but still easy going. Versatile too, as it comes to pairing with food. Oxtail soup will enhance the umami, whereas lemon cake will lift up the citrus notes.
A little piece of history
Speyside distillery started to produce in 1990 but its history goes back to 1956 when George Christie acquired a piece of land near Kingussie. He commissioned dry stone dyker Alex Fairlie to hand build a distillery on the site, which work commenced in 1962. It took 28 years to complete the works, during which time the distillery changes ownership. The company was taken over two more times and is now owned by Harvey’s of Edinburgh International.
In 2025 production will cease altogether, the buildings will be taken down and a new distillery (which will bear a different name) will arise about 20 miles from the current site. So, all Speyside single malts bottled by Saltire will come from a ‘lost’ distillery, which makes these expressions truly Rare!
Water source
River Tromie
Malt source
Commercial maltsters.
Capacity
600,000 litres of alcohol per annum
Location
Kingussie, Highlands
Map (source googlemaps.com)
1 semi-lauter mash tun (4.2 ton)
6 stainless steel washbacks
fermentation time 70 hours short and 120
hours long
1 wash still
1 spirit still
