End Date : Apr 02 2025 08:10 PM
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One cask of Glentauchers Single Malt Scotch Whisky distilled in 2008 currently maturing at Duncan Taylor in Scotland. Annual storage fees currently stand at £70.58 + VAT per year and the new owner must make arrangements directly with the warehouse after the sale. Contact details will be given by the current cask owner.
This cask was re-gauged 10-02-2025. The new re-gauged litres were found to be approximately 197.25 bulk litres at a strength of 60.4%. This would currently yield approximately 281 x 70cl bottles of cask strength whisky, currently at 16 years old.
- Distillery: Glentauchers
- Originally filled: 17-07-2008
- Current age: 16 years old
- Cask number: 900683
- Cask type: Bourbon
- Original filled with: 170.30 litres of alcohol
- Current cask strength: 60.4%
- New re-gauged bulk litres: 197.25 litres
- Currently yielding: Approximately 281 x 70cl bottles
Ownership of this cask is auctioned here in bond. The buyer will have ownership transferred to them once payment is processed post sale. Any costs relating to removal from the bond or bottling will be the responsibility of the new cask owner.
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Whisky-Online Auctions Tasting Notes:
Nose:
Wood shop must with shavings of oak and cedar wood slowly gives way to more defined spice notes of cinnamon and vanilla. Warm Danish pastries and Chantilly cream lie beneath with the slightest inflection of tropical fruit from mango and a touch of caramelised pineapple sprinkled with flex of orange zest.
Palate:
Expressive and complex. Juicy fruits intertwine with soft spices from mango to nutmeg to pineapple, through mace and nutmeg, to melon and vanilla with lychee and cinnamon. Creamy custard on coconut cake and a touch of burnt ends bitterness from dark chocolate.
Finish:
Creamy and clinging with the dark chocolate bitterness fading through soft baking spice and barley water.
Comments:
This hits the nail right on the head. Balance and complexity with layers of interest for anyone enjoying it. Initial concerns around the wood forward nature of the nose were utterly unfounded. A well delivered all round drinker from a dependable distillery that is crying out to be bottled asap.
A substantial but low-profile Speyside distillery producing fresh, clean, floral Speyside for its owners’ blends, Glentauchers started life with two stills in 1898 but was expanded to its current six stills in the mid-1960s. After a long period under DCL ownership Glentauchers was purchased in 1989 by Allied Distillers (now owned by Pernod Ricard) and has been a keystone malt for Ballantine’s ever since. In 2020 it was revealed that Glentauchers would be switching to biofuel with the goal of attaining carbon neutrality.
Official bottlings of Glentauchers were practically non-existent until a few years ago but are now released under the Ballantine’s Series label. Gordon & MacPhail have been the de facto official bottlers for Glentauchers for decades, with licensed bottlings appearing in the Distillery Labels range and cask strength vintage editions in the Connoisseurs Choice and Private Collection series.
A private bottling is a cask of single malt or single grain whisky that has been bottled privately by its owner or owners, and usually bottles are not released for public sale. Private bottlings may sometimes be bottled for their owners by the distillery of origin, but are not official bottlings by that distillery.
Alternatively, if the cask is not housed at the distillery where it was made, it may be bottled either by another distillery or private cask storage facility, or transported to a third party commercial bottler.
Private bottlings used to be relatively common, a legacy of the whisky lake of the 1980s, when distilleries had excess stock and were desperate to offload their inventory. These kinds of casks rarely make it to private bottlings nowadays - casks that were very inexpensive twenty or thirty years ago have shot up in value, and distilleries have scrambled to buy back privately-owned casks of their own spirit, while cask owners are rarely short of offers from brokers or independent bottlers.
| BID | DATE | TIME | |
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| £4,000.00 | 2nd April 2025 | 07:56 PM | |
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