Glencadam 10 Year Old
Slow and steady wins the day
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WReview by @Wierdo
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Bottle has been open about 3 months. About a quarter left.
This is a very pale whisky. Natural colour. No chill filtration and bottled at 46%. So all the good stuff.
Nose
Quite solventy. Cut grass. A bit of lemon.
Palate
Young. So quite spirit driven. A lovely honey note is the main thing I pick up. Grass and lemons again. Also pear drops. Green apples, barley and initially a play doh note which was not overpowering but slightly off putting. This disappeared after I'd got about half way down the bottle.
Finish
Fairly long. Quite dry and oaky.
Overall
Not a statement malt by any stretch. But a goid example of a highland whisky. I was initially fairly unimpressed. But this has improved massively with time as I've got down the bottle.
Available at a very sensible price too at around £35 a bottle in the UK. That is excellent value for money.
Would I buy it again. Perhaps not. But it's definitely made me take note of Glencadam. I'll try something up the range from them in time. Maybe the 13 or 15.
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Nice review. I tried this one a while back and was quite positive about the fresh and crispy nature of if for such a decent price. Nothing mind blowing but shows that they can. And like the "integrity" of it to quote someone... All that said, they must have the worst presentation and marketing on their site I ever seen. In fact I wrote to them about it in a moment of... Crazy maybe. Of course, never got a reaction back
