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| Hi, this is one of our (almost) daily tastings. Santé! |
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February 25, 2021 |
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Glencadam 13 yo 2007/2020 (40%, OB, Whisky Journey Singapore, 1st fill bourbon, cask #27, 368 bottles) 
Glencadam's new livery here, and a strength that's curiously low. Now low-strength whiskies do make for appropriate apéritifs, don't they… Colour: straw. Nose: ho-ho, the strength might be low, but the profile is perfect, you'd really believe you're nosing some young Montrachet ex-new oak. Wonderful vanilla, crushed bananas, honeysuckle, acacia flowers, sunflower oil, and a few sweets, jellybeans perhaps, a tiny drop of cherry coke (remember?) All that is rather brilliant and the 40% got by without a hitch. This far… Mouth: understood! I believe they've been looking for high drinkability and that worked. Same feeling of high-class chardonnay, sweets, ripe bananas, herbal teas, earl grey, a drop of triple-sec, oats and sesame, lime tea… It's really very good and for once you feel any extra-degrees would have been rather superfluous. Well done. Finish: sure it's a little short but the barley is back. Comments: really very good but you'd rather buy jeroboams. Goes down as if it was… a Montrachet.
SGP:451 - 86 points. |
Good, after that ueber-gentle dram, let's have rocket fuel… |
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Glencadam 9 yo 2011/2020 (63.9%, The Single Malts of Scotland, Elixir Distillers, barrel, cask #800015, 249 bottles)
Colour: white wine. Nose: earth after a first rain, cellulosic varnish, white asparagus, granny smith, nail polish remover, marshmallow brochettes (a hit when we were boy scouts), Spanish green apple liqueur… And a feeling of wood smoke that sometimes comes with high-strength whiskies. With water: the smoke's still there! All the rest consists in various herbal teas and small citrus. Yuzu, lemon caviar, also lemon sherbet. Mouth (neat): tremble, mere mortal… Juicy fruits, marshmallows, bubblegum, all kinds of raspberry sweets and candies and gums… Orange eau-de-vie (maceration). With water: a whole basket of fresh orchard fruits plus big juicy oranges and all the fruits drops we could hope for. Finish: same. Good length. Sherbety, as they say in St. Tropez. Comments: liquid sweets. Super good, with a distillate that's got a little more texture than others, which works well with this style.
SGP:651 - 86 points. |
Look, those 63.9% were nothing… |
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Glencadam 9 yo 2011/2020 (64.6%, Signatory Vintage, for Kirsch Import, bourbon barrel, cask #800144, 178 bottles)
Colour: light gold. Nose: almost the same whisky, pretty obviously, as it is a sister cask. Perhaps a tad fatter, with a little more vanilla from a barrel that was probably a little more active. A little more chlorophyll and herbs, perhaps. With water: a few lactic tones, other than that it is, indeed, the same whisky as the TSMOS. Mouth (neat): even closer. Excellent – perhaps just a little lethal. With water: same. Ish. Finish: long and similar. A little grassier this time. Grapefruits, lemon sherbet, acid drops. Comments: very good drops, these young fruity Glencadams!
SGP:651 - 86 points |
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