Glencadam 1989 12 Year Old - Authentic Collection (70cl, 60.1%) ***sold***

Glencadam 12 1989 Authentic CollectionGlencadam 12 1989 Authentic Collection

Glencadam 1989 12 Year Old - Authentic Collection (70cl, 60.1%) ***sold***

1 of 204 bottles.

A very rare single malt whisky from Cadenhead's Authentic Collection, this was distilled at the Glencadam distillery in 1989, aged for 12years in a bourbon barrel before bottling at natural cask strength in 2002.

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. 

The Authentic Collection was launched by Wm. Cadenhead in 1991, and included whiskies from several rare closed Scottish and Irish distilleries, bottled for the company's 150th anniversary. It would later go on to become a mainstay of their portfolio, as the cask strength alternative to the Original Collection, which replaced their famous "dumpy" bottlings in the early 1990s. The Authentic Collection is now the flagship Cadenhead brand, and one of the most recognisable independent labels on the market.

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