LOT ID: 0223-1215
End Date : Mar 22 2023 08:00 PM
Glencadam 1998 - 2006. 7 Year Old. Bottled by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Society cask number 82.16. Cheery-flavoured Ttunes. One of 562 bottles matured in a Refill Ex-Sherry Cask. 70cl. 57.4%. 100.4 Proof. In presentation box.
From the archives: This make is not often encountered, since it has never been bottled by its owner. Indeed the distillery, which is near Brechin, operated only sporadically until 2003 when it was bought by Angus Dundee Ltd and brought back into production.
This bottling comes from a re-fill ex-sherry cask and has a good amber colour. The nose has bags of 'sherry-wood' identity - crème brûlee and egg custard - with some fruity notes (mouldy grapefruits), damp tea-bags.
The flavour is therefore surprising: cherry flavoured Tunes, with a lingering jammy aftertaste. Water increases this fruity note (raspberry flavoured toffee, and introduces rounded, creamy, nutty characteristics. Mouth-coating; sweet, then dryish, with only the faintest trace of pencil eraser rubber and not overly tannic. Very easy to drink.
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Glencadam is a relatively small Highland distillery that often flies under the radar of many malt fans. Owned by Angus Dundee Distillers, who bought Glencadam from Allied Domecq in 2003, the distillery celebrated a momentous occasion in 2021 with the installation of a water-wheel to generate their electricity - the original distillery built in 1825 was equipped with a similar water-wheel that powered operations for almost 100 years.
In common with its stablemate, Tomintoul, the vast majority of Glencadam’s gentle Highland single malt goes into Angus Dundee’s many blended whiskies. Prior to the Angus Dundee takeover official bottlings of Glencadam were almost non-existent but there is now a solid core range enhanced by frequent single cask and small batch editions. Independent Glencadams are plentiful, with older vintages from the usual suspects generally very good value, especially at auction.
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The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) began in late 1970s Edinburgh when founder Pip Hills persuaded a group of friends to chip in for a cask of Glenfarclas, and was officially formalised in 1983. Today the SMWS has two venues in Edinburgh, a London bar and a string of international partnerships serving its 35,000 members.
The Society’s whiskies are known for their unique SMWS coding system. Each cask bottled is assigned two numbers, representing the distillery and the bottling number, so 1.45 is the forty-fifth cask bottled from the first distillery and 33.27 is the 27th cask from the 33rd distillery.
Glenmorangie bought the Society in 2004, but sold it in 2015 to a private consortium who floated the SMWS on the stock market in 2021 via their holding company Artisanal Spirits Co.
BID | DATE | TIME | |
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£260.00 | 22nd March 2023 | 19:24 | |
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