Glencadam 1987 18 Year Old Against The Grain Single Cask (Bottle Number 1!) 2005 70cl

An independent bottling from the legendary wine merchant, Oddbins. The Against the Grain series consisted of 9 bottles from distilleries they 'tried' to keep secret, one of two of the bottles escaped this confusion.

This Glencadam is one of them, distilled on 20th June 1987 and bottled on 16th November 2005 as an 18 year old, matured exclusively in a refill Bourbon cask #1539.

Bottle number 1 of 232.

GLENCADAM:

Despite being nearly 200 years old, Glencadam is still a lesser-known single malt. For the majority of the 20th century it was owned by blenders, first Gilmour Thompson, and then Hiram Walker who bought it in 1954. Over the next half century a series of amalgamations brought the distillery into the hands of Allied Distillers. Despite being the home of the Stewarts Cream of the Barley blend, it was shut down in 2000. Allied Distillers experimented with a brief distillery bottling of Glencadam single malt in the 1980s, but it was not until Angus Dundee re-opened it in 2003 that it was pushed as a single malt brand. Prior this, independent releases like this were the only real chance to try this well-regarded spirit.

Glencadam is located in the ancient city of Brechin, in the Eastern Highlands of Scotland. In 2021, a working water wheel was re-installed in the heart of Glencadam Distillery, a nod back to how the distillery was powered back in 1825.

Unusually, Glencadam’s stills have lyne arms that run upwards at an angle of 15 degrees, this encourages significant reflux which helps to produce a single malt which is characterised by its tropical and orchard fruit flavours.

All their age statement whiskies are bottled at 46% and are neither chill filtered nor coloured to retain the whisky's natural characteristics.

Glencadam do not market a lot but make consistently good whisky

46% ABV

70cl