Glentauchers 10 yo 2013/2023 (58.9%, Lady Of The Glen, cask #800499, ex-Islay PX sherry finish, 265 bottles)
We may have made a bit of a strategic error at the outset here, ex-Islay + PX + Glentauchers? Probably not the right combination for an aperitif. But this remains after all, an 'amateur' website - and enthusiastically so! Colour: apricoty gold. Nose: cooked meats and charcoal are the first impressions. I don't get any big blast of peat, but there is certainly something rather sooty and salty about it. The sherry is there too with this familiar slightly jammy and sticky side. With water: brings out a nice plummy fruitiness along with some fruit teas and things like date molasses and treacle. Water pretty essential I would say. Mouth: very sweet! Rather on things like cranberry and orange juice, ginger cake, sugar syrup, citrus flavoured throat lozenges and lemon curd. Very sticky and thick, good if you have a sweet tooth! With water: once again, water seems to do the trick. Balances the sweetness a bit some slightly prickly wood spices, cedar wood, black tea and mint julep. Finish: medium, getting spicier, hotter and still with a lot of jangling sweet fruit. Comments: not really my cup of malt I'm afraid, I don't get much smoke or peat, but I certainly find the modern PX rather dominating and the feeling in the end is that it's rather cloying and tough. If you enjoy that particular style though, I am sure you'll like this one. 
SGP: 642 - 78 points. 

Glentauchers 13 yo 2009/2022 (64.1%, Signatory Vintage for The Whisky Exchange, cask #900314, 1st fill sherry butt, 649 bottles)
Colour: deep gold. Nose: rocket fuel, but noseable. Some very nice leafy, earthy and lemon rind notes but they feel a bit subdued by the alcohol. Let's just go for water without too much prevarication I think… With water: opens nicely onto tinned apricot, quince, flower honey and some caramel shortbread richness. Mouth: very good and surprisingly accessible even at this strength. Slightly sappy, lots of spiced orange liqueur, fir resins, tangerine and wood spices. Still needs water though. With water: that nice earthiness is more exposed now, we're more on tobaccos, cloves, aniseed, liquorice bark and wee camphory aspects. A good feeling of richness and weight, with even a little waxiness, which I find appropriately Glentauchersish. Finish: medium, on wood saps, sultanas, salted caramel and a little more leafy earthiness. Comments: I find these super high cask strengths very extreme, these casks almost always seems to work better with a few degrees reduction to my palate. That's probably my own preferences as a bottler and drinker coming through, but I certainly find this one really much improved by water. 
SGP: 551 - 84 points. 

Glentauchers 21 yo (47.1%, That Boutique-y Whisky Company, 803 bottles)
Colour: straw. Nose: totally different! Rather wonderfully on pollens, honeys and green fruits with a nicely apparent waxiness supporting everything in the background. Feels very emblematic of Glentauchers as a slightly fuller bodied make. It also expresses this 'matured fruity Speyside' profile that I find completely impossible to be against. Mouth: extremely easy, soft, waxy and full of yellow fruits, pollens, dried out old honey, crystallised citrus rinds and chamomile tea. Globally it's is perhaps a tad simple and slightly 'soft', but this softer and drier quality makes it extremely quaffable, just not the most complex dram ever. Finish: medium, faintly peppery, still nicely waxy and elegantly drying once again. Comments: reminds me of the old G&M 1979 licensed bottling with this drier, gently fruity and waxy profile. Simple, but highly pleasurable and easy to sip. Proper 'drinking' whisky, if you can imagine such a thing.
SGP: 451 - 87 points. 

Glentauchers 23 yo 1997/2021 (53.2%, Elixir Distillers 'The Single Malts of Scotland', cask #401, barrel, 157 bottles)
I really enjoyed sibling cask #402 which was bottled a couple of years previously as a 21yo (WF88), so hopefully this should be of similar calibre… Colour: straw. Nose: similar to the Boutiquey but richer and sweeter with clearer wood influence and slightly less dominant waxiness. Having said that, there are still indeed quite a few waxy notes, some pineapple, some more of these lovely dried out honey qualities, rolling tobacco and muesli full of dried fruits. With water: greener, on flowers in vase water and crushed parsley. More pollens and a hint of tree bark. Mouth: sweet and juicy, with pineapple jelly, white pepper, a little waxed canvass impression and things like face cream, juniper, mint tea and bergamot. Lovely, and once again on the more charismatic side of modern Speyside I would say. With water: gets closer to the Boutiquey with a more magnified waxiness, although still a bit sweeter and rounder. Finish: medium, slightly sappy, peppery, the oak feeling a tad more now. Comments: I find this one more complex, but in the end, I actually think I prefer the waxier and more direct Boutiquey bottling. 
SGP: 551 - 86 points. 

Glentauchers 30 yo 1990/2020 (50.4%, Gordon & MacPhail, Connoisseur's Choice, cask #12487, refill hogshead, 169 bottles)
Colour: gold. Nose: very honeyed, richly on honeys, mead, waxes and hints of camphor and pine needles. Blind you might say a 1970s distillate rather than 1990. I also start to get some lovely notes of dried heather flower and dried mint. Add to that a touch of eucalyptus and aged calvados. A gorgeous nose, I have to say. With water: more of the same, but add in perhaps one or two greener fruits and some aged sweet wine. Mouth: very in keeping with the nose, in that it is dominated by waxes and honeys, but perhaps not quite as complex as the nose - which is so often the case with older whiskies. Still, these thick and syrupy waxy flavours are gorgeous, and in time there's also a sweeter honey note and flavours of dried papaya and mango. With water: becomes a little warmer and more peppery, also more of these lovely dried exotic fruit notes. Really delicious! Finish: long, and becoming tropically fruity once again, plenty more waxes, aged mead and camphor with a nice warming peppery aftertaste. Comments: quite simply, gorgeous, old school, waxy malt whisky, captured just before it got too old I think. 
SGP: 561 - 90 points.