Glencadam 1996 15 Year Old Operation Herrick 14 Afghanistan 2011 (70cl, 58.8%) ***sold***
One of 195 bottles from bourbon cask No 2158
From the Sergeant's Mess at 45 Commando in Arbroath. Bottled to commemorate Operation Herrick in Afghanistan in 2011.
A 15 year old Glencadam distilled 17th June 1996 and bottled 12th August 2011.
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.