Glencadam 21 Year Old: Review
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Dustin and I offer our thoughts on this 46% Highland single malt. This is our first time with a whisly from Glencadam so please let us know what you think of this distillery and what bottles to look for next.
Awesome video🙂
thanks!
Those are the best aromas I have heard!!! Banana and Bubblegum with a nice color to it. Neosporin:):) Happy Easter Boys
Happy Easter buddy!
Another great review Mike...
I appreciate that
Excited about this one. My wife is due on the 21st and our son to be is named Cadam Stagg.
Interesting whisky, especially considering the price. Cheers guys🥃
Cheers Al
Hmmmm interesting review. I've been looking hard at this one lately because of that great price. I was a fan of the 15 and the 19 oloroso finish - I do like that clean highland profile overall, and bottled at 46, ncf, natural color. I think I'll pull the trigger and expect something pretty good but not to be blown away. Maybe I'll love it even more than you guys.
My level of enthusiasm is lower than most of the whisky tube on this one so hopefully you’ll be impressed. Dustin and I just recorded a 20 year PX cask strength Glencadam that was a bit more interesting.
@@topshelfwhisky oh damn, that sounds awesome. An IB?
@@sundayeveningscotch4978 no offical bottling. We have 2 more OB single casks at CS to get to. The PX was a pretty light PX cask, must have been very reused, but it added a bit more and the added abv helped. Still not a stunner a bit bit less of a value. I think our port and oloroso single casks reviews on some younger bottling might get interesting. As for the 21, if you can get it at UK prices with fair shipping you can't be upset with this one if you know what you're getting. It just might not wow you or make you think "oh yeah this IS 21 years old". But I've seen it about 140-150 to your door, hard to be upset.
@@topshelfdustin3060 Thanks man! Those CS sound interesting. And yeah, TWW has it at a great price right now. Might grab one just to try.
@@sundayeveningscotch4978 yeah I paid a bit more as TWW didn't have it when I ordered and suddenly those single casks came with it. Oh well, I'm glad I bought them over the 25 year. It gets similarly ok reviews and is a good price 25 but it's still expensive.
Great review! Yes, some side by sides would be excellent. Only have the 10 (Roy listed as a HERO Bottle for the similar notes as well as non chill, natural color, and 46% ABV) and Looking forward to enjoying in the summertime.
This is certainly a summer dram if nothing else.
Of course we want to see a versus review. Any excuse to watch you gentlemen ( more Mike than dustin with that description) drink great whisky
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Haha
Mike had enough of good Scotch that nothing can really impress him 😀
I’ve had this this expression and I liked it but nothing crazy, it’s good dram for your friends who don’t know anything about Scotch.
I’m spoiled, no doubt.
It's a great starter scotch for people moving up who are ready for a bit more age than a 12, but are digging the blends and their lighter notes. But yeah, this would be perfect for Mike's distraction bar as he calls it.
@@topshelfdustin3060 Got to distract people from the good stuff.
Back when Ralfy made the 15 vanish I got the 10 and loved it. When the 15 returned got one and enjoyed it too. From the way people describe this one (Phil called it vanilla ice cream) would like to see you guys do a side by side with Arran 21. Cheers
I might have killed my arran 21 lol. That's a much MUCH better whisky. I did do them side by side. The higher quality sherry casks in the Arran really come alive vs this glencadem. You almost instantly realize just how much better Arran is when you go side by side. Everything from the malt quality to the casks are vastly superior.
No comparisons need to be made to the Glencadam. Sounds like it's time to move on to something more interesting. :)
Life is to short
As the season warms, less people will be watching and you know...people do like less interesting whisky in the summer. I think we might save up the more exciting reviews for the cooler months. well some of them, we're hardly going to stop with interesting whiskies.
I really like this one ! With a few drops of water and at least 20 minutes in a glass.
It needed more time. Normally I take quite a bit more time with the first dram.
I vote to take the shirt off in the next vid 😜
Dustin said he will comply.
@@topshelfwhisky how about you comply instead? 😋 I wanna watch a real snack.
Do the comparison to the macallan 21
We can do that.
I have a feeling the macallan wins rather easily but it's a good comp for sure.
@@topshelfdustin3060 i havent tried either whisky, but i'd love to watch that
@@malaka01010101010101 gotcha, I think the balvinie is the better comp but we'll see.
Balvenie 15 is an interesting sherry casked. It's gotta be in a different class than official GlenCadams
We were talking about the older 15 single casks that were exclusively aged in ex bourbon, not the new sherry cask ones. Those are far too different to compare here.
There's something slightly comical about a channel called Top Shelf Whisky and the host says "I don't have a subtle palette, I need something to wow me". Stick to Ardbeg 10 and the entry level sherry bombs then. If you are going to appreciate true top shelf whisky then elegance and subtly of flavour and some of the biggest factors. Rosebank- doesn't wow you, its the elegance and nuisance of the whisky. How many well aged ex-bourbon whiskies are there that don't have massive flavour hooks? Marking something down because it doesn't wow you with big obvious flavours is defining some whiskies by the rules of a game they aren't trying to play. Whisky should be judged by the execution of what they are setting out to achieve.
First off, thank you for watch and thank you even more for the feedback. I think some context might be in order on this one though I see you've been following the channel for some time. I'll start with Top Shelf is simply a reference to our reviewing expensive, older, and higher end bottles. We're by no means claiming we're the best reviewers out there!
You made me go back and re-watch. Mike's score is a bit low so agree with you there. But I have to say, there isn't much nuance in this whisky. There isn't much elegance either. It's simple, straight forward, and dull. it drinks younger than the age statement. It doesn't have distinct transitions, the approach and the finish are very much about the same. While I certainly love my whisky at CS, I don't think CS would fix any of these issues here. It's just not special imo.
Also, wow factor in CS entry level sherry bombs? Those are generally terrible whiskies, look at that KK8 (either of them). I can't believe people like those. Now nothing wrong with ardbeg 10, but to be fair I'm not sure Ardbeg has had a wow whisky since dark cove. way too many overly young and frankly poorly executed bottles.
Anyway cheers Stephen and hopefully you watch more of our videos and give us more good or bad feedback. We can't get better without hearing both! I think the take away I got here is I need to be more critical and not let my desire to think a poor whisky is good cloud my review. I clearly talked this one up when I shouldn't have.
@@topshelfdustin3060 Thanks for your reply. First off, I think you may have misinterpreted my comment about wow factor in sherry bombs. I don't rate them, nor whiskies that have peat and nothing else BUT if a comment is made in the video stating "I don't have subtlety in my palette, I need big flavours to wow me" then perhaps it's best sticking to simpler whiskies with those big hooks rather than marking down subtle whiskies for being exactly that. It wasn't me saying I like sherry bombs.
We all have different palettes and perhaps you got a duff bottle which happens. I agree with the other reviewers that it's a great whisky, but I don't mind if we disagree or there's some bad bottles out there.
It's just a bit of a trigger point when people can't appreciate delicate of subtle whiskies, declare it doesn't have big flavours and then mark it down as a result. I saw this once on scotch 4 dummies with a different whisky too where a comment was made that ex-bourbon matured scotch was too simple- nonsense. I feel that's missing the point of a big portion of great whiskies out there and you guys generally review the good stuff that requires a closer examination than that. However, if that whisky just didn't work for you then fair enough.
Anyway, cheers for all the content and apologies if I was a bit rough with the initial comment :)
@@Stephend005 cheers man. Yeah "wow' doesn't imo mean BIG. Now, we like CS which is imo different from just big flavors, take that KK8 sherry bomb, I down right can't drink it. It's not a wow whisky!
Anyway, I do think ultimately we both don't care for this distillery's malt and combining that with extremely inactive casks really made this a disappointing experience. I should have watched ralfy's review where he basically told me I'd hate it and then gave it a 90 :)
@@topshelfdustin3060 I'm not sure which Ralfy review you were watching (perhaps the older one from 3 years ago rather than the much more recent one?) but ralfy didn't say a bad word about it. Quite the opposite in fact:
“a blossoming single walk that generously rewards patience fantastically with intensity of flavour”
“complex, light, hugely expressive single malt, which is very good quality indeed”
“light, floral, fragrant, fruity, sweet, sour, salty, bitter, nice expressive sensation range”
“a dram i have been thoroughly enjoying exploring”
“delivers a resounding, excellent single malt, 90 out of 100, not a problem”
What did ralfy say that told you that you would hate it?
@@Stephend005 his explanation of the sour and bitter elements. He spent a rather good amount of time explaining how sour and intense the sour was.
you should have let it breathe the whole 21 minutes before giving it a score you cant let it breath for 13 minutes and judge it so quickly
I would tend to agree that we should let these breath more, but really it doesn't change this one much.
@@topshelfdustin3060 it kinda does
I agree, I thought about time-lapse in some reviews. We will go back to it at some point.
@@RomainRiviere I own the bottle, I really don't think this one benefits that much. If it did and mike scored it low, I"d have stepped in.
Now we DID screw up the compass box special hedonism as that thing opens up like a MONSTER! There might be a few others i thought we rushed, but I"m pretty aware of that issue when we review and I try and take it into account. It just imo wasn't needed here
Another vanilla Malt Muser and Telex whiskey that is boring
haha, yeah this however is better than that irish one.
I sent MM an HP25 (48.1) which he seemed impressed with. Might raise his expectations.
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