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| Hello, that is one among our (nearly) every day tastings. Santé! |
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Could 24, 2022
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Little trios, at present three younger wee Glencadam
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The growing old of Sauternes (Sauternes-Barsac)
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A humble official NAS, a younger official completed in Sauternes, and an explosive unbiased. Wonderful with you?
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Glencadam ‘American Oak Reserve’ (40%, OB, +/-2022) 
Simply an NAS entry-level drop for warming-up functions, though you’d by no means know… Are they nonetheless making the standard ‘Origin’, by the best way? Color: gold. Nostril: porridge, sourdough, vanilla and sawdust. I repeat, porridge, sourdough, vanilla and sawdust. Plus ripe apples and a few minimize grass. Mouth: good, barley-y and malty, slightly bitter (apples) and in any other case on pear cake and extra vanilla. End: medium, grassier, much more on beers. All the time the identical feeling of sawdust within the aftertaste, plus a handful of Ricola sweets. Feedback: any single malt, or whisky for that matter, bearing the phrase ‘reserve’ can be slightly common, do not ask me why. No exception right here, but it surely stays a discover little drop – when there isn’t any older Glencadam.
SGP:341 – 78 factors. |
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Glencadam 13 yo 2008/2021 ‘Réserve de Sauternes’ (46%, OB, Sauternes Cask End, 3,042 bottles) 
Completed in Sauternes casks, so clearly in French oak. Sauternes wooden usually works, offered no large sulphur was burned previous to transport. Barrels/barriques having contained candy wines equivalent to Sauternes would are inclined to rot sooner, which is why you could possibly discover extra sulphur in such second-hand casks. I’ve nosed some newly shipped Sauternes barriques whereas on Islay, a very long time in the past, and so they had been massively sulphury. ‘When are you going to rinse them?’ did we ask. ‘Rinse them out? Are you loopy, are you aware the worth?’… Certainly, a very long time in the past… Color: straw. Nostril: maybe this chalkiness? In any other case muffins, barley, orange zests, contact of paraffin, vine peaches, quinces, a wee mustiness… I am not likely getting the wine, no large apricots or roses or litchis, and no botrytis both! Not obligatorily dangerous information. Whiffs of IPA. Mouth: good for positive, fruitier, this time, with apricots certainly, oranges and tangerines, Jaffa muffins, heather honey, drops of ginger tonic… Would are inclined to develop into much more citrusy over time, which is clearly superb. You’d have believed this was ex-verdejo moderately than ex-Sauternes. Spanish Rueda. End: good size and a clear, orangey path towards an oakier and bitterer aftertaste and only a handful of orange drops. Feedback: clearly profitable. Now, to know concerning the Château in Sauternes…
SGP:641 – 86 factors. |
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Glencadam 10 yo 2011/2022 (61.5%, Signatory Classic for Kirsch Import, 1st fill bourbon barrel, cask #800115, 226 bottles)
This one is likely to be slightly rocket-fuel-like. Color: straw. Nostril: quite a lot of chalk and hay, porridge, flour, limoncello and, effectively, ethanol! I am not saying you do really feel uncooked alcohol, I am simply saying that is very sturdy. With water: lemon sherbet and maybe what we name ‘a colonel’, which is lemon sherbet drizzled with vodka. Proper, drown in vodka. Mouth (neat): very acidic, with a mentholated, piney oakiness behind these large limes and lemons. We might add some correct rum and voilà, the strongest mojito ever made! With water: extremely lemony, very tight, with some yuzu, maybe. Or different wee tart citrus fruits. End: very lengthy and simply as lemony. Lemon sweets. Did they distil lemons? End this in an ex-limoncello IBC? Feedback: time so as to add that I am a sucker for something lemon. Spectacular younger Glencadam however then in fact, do you have to not be an excessive amount of into lemons…
SGP:651 – 87 factors. |
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