Hi everyone,
I actually don’t think I could find anything interesting to say about Glencadam distillery. It was closed between 2000-2004, it’s changed hands a bunch and it’s a Highland distillery, south of Aberdeen.
I guess the name sounds a bit like a cliché magic word…
Abra-Kadabra-Glencadam! Poof!
No? Just me? Ok, whatever.
Glencadam 10 46%
Colour: Pale Gold
Body: Light/Medium
Nose: Fresh and clean. Malty, fresh fruit with plenty of green apple and juicy pear, light citrus, a little raisin, a biscuit note. Nice balance.
Taste: Juicy! Fresh with lots of life. Juicy red and green apple, pear, some raisin again, biscuit again, quite creamy, building malt character with cereal, some oak into the finish.
Finish: Short/Medium length. Red apple and an oaky bite.
An agreeable whisky. Reminds me of Glen Moray.
70/100
Wait, no! I’ve got it now. Glencadam sounds slightly musical!!
Glencadam, Glencadam
I’m still not sure if I’m a fan
Glencadam, Glencadam
More red apple than O-Ban
Oh, Highland Glencadam
Make me into more of a man
Glencadam, Glencadam
Throws the punches like Jackie Chan
Calling out Glencadam
You may get kicked out the clan
Glencadam, Glencadam
You could drink it out of a can!
I’ll show myself out….
Thanks for reading!
Scotch Review #330
Whisky Network Review #363
Network Average: 74.4
Best Score: 92
Worst Score: 44
0-49 Terrible
50-59 Bad
60-64 Just About OK
65-69 Ok to Good
70-74 Good
75-79 Very Good
80-84 Excellent
85-89 Superb
90+ Magnificent
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your scores are so low, find it a little offensive actually , glencadam 10 such a beauty
ReplyDeleteHey there, why does it offend you? 70 is firmly within 'good' territory. It's a good whisky. Equally my 70 could be your 90 or 95 or whatever. It's just a slightly different 100 point system. It doesn't sound great and I doubt distilleries like my scoring but it what makes the most sense to me.
DeleteIf you give this 90 and then Glencadam 21 95, you've only got 5 points left to play around with in the very very high end stuff.