Glencadam Amarone Wine Cask Finish

The Glencadam distillery was founded back in 1825, and though it was mothballed at the turn of the millennium, family owned Angus Dundee (who also own Tomintoul) purchased it in 2003 and had it back up and running within a couple of months of the ink drying! It’s located in Brechin, a few miles from the coast between Aberdeen and Dundee, proudly reinstated a 4.3m water wheel in 2021, and has been open to visitors since 2025.

Glencadam is known to be light thanks to plenty of reflux, and can be both floral and notably creamy. Riserva di Amarone has a pronounced Amarone Italian red wine cask finish, after starting out in bourbon casks, all aged in the distillery’s traditional dunnage warehouses (think stone walled, earthen floored, casks stacked no more than three high – perfect maturation environment, but less cost effective than modern racked warehouses).