Glencadam 12 Year Old 1980s 75cl

Glencadam 12 Year Old 1980s 75cl

A very rare bottling of Glencadam from the 1980s from early no bar code days and still bottling at 75cl

I personally think that since USA had bourbon last, they should have drawn the short 70cl straw and we kept on at 75cl in EU. But ah well. Is what it is!

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 this 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.

The reason they are lesser known is unlike some speyside brands, they do not have much marketing spend at all and focus simply on making whisky. As we say there are two kinds of people. Glencadam fans and those who have never heard of them.

40% ABV

75cl