Glencadam 10 Year

Very fruity/sweet, no linger, simple - boring

Robbie Burns 2017

Billy Abbot rec

Whiskey Guild's Whiskey Cruise 2016

Colour is urine-pale, with spotty legs. Smell is barley sugar, lemon, unripe orchard fruits and slight stone fruits: a bit of pear or apple skin, slightly sugary. An initial spirity "white grape" kind of flavour I often associate with young malts. Taste has an initial sweetness, like watered down maple syrup, then lemon candies and more fruitiness. Crab apples? Slightly peppery. I don't quite get Distiller's insistence about "spice" here, though it does have a bit more kick than the standard 'fiddich/'livet "glens". A touch of black tea. Faint berries, maybe even a nuttiness. Short finish, but pleasant ( a nice green apple tart sweetness). Hard to rate--it hovers around the same price as a lot of entry level single malts and hits many of the same notes, though in a way that's different enough to at least change things up. I won't replace the bottle once it's done (there's just so much out there), but the profile and the price make it pretty darn drinkable. Craft presentation is a distinct plus, too.