Hi everyone,
I don’t know a huge amount about Glencadam at all, I don’t mind admitting that. But luckily, the internet is full of knowledge about random distilleries that I know nothing about and I can be like a sponge when it comes to stuff like this.
Something I didn’t realise is that the distillery was closed for 3 years, between 2000 and 2003 until it was bought by its current owner; Angus Dundee.
They seem to have realised that people want single cask, cask strength bottlings only recently and have now started doing a line of them, as well as special editions matured in port and sherry casks.
The one I have here is from a range of vintage casks that are in more square looking bottles.
Glencadam 1982 46%
Colour: Gold
Body: Medium/Full
Nose: Straight away it’s weird, pool chlorine, slightly rancid cherry and parma violets, cardboard dust (like you grinded them up), parma ham left out too long, some strawberry.
Taste: Very soft, floral, chewy sweetness coming in, parma violets, red apple, some leather and chocolate, then weird into the finish. Some spirit-y-ness mid-palate too.
Finish: Long length. Very strange with this parma voilet, odd mouthfeel and off cherry/ham note.
From a Single Sherry cask, bottled at 30yo. What an oddball, never expected 80's Bowmore from Glencadam and also it can't pull it off as Bowmore sometimes can. I am normally a fan of older whisky but something went wrong with this particular cask I think. Yeah, weird.
67/100
Thanks for reading!
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