Glencadam Distillery, Scotland     founded: 1825 | active
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We're behaving like a bunch of Cox, this is seriously appley on the nose, with slight variation on the definition: apple sours, appletiser, dried apple and a couple of apples in their own right. It's very fruity and sweet, and all but 2 flavours identified are fruits - other than apple, there's banana, rhubard, plum, stewed pear and grapes. Completing this nasal pudding, why not have a bit of meringue and vanilla ice cream on the side? Certainly a consistently fruity nose.

The sweet fruitiness of the nose continued on into the taste, but pumped up a bit in intensity. Now we've got prunes, fig, raisins, vanilla and kirsch. The sweetness is less dessert and more breakfast with plum jam and golden syrup raising their hands. There's also a vivacious tang coming through, best described by the presence of ginger, vinegar and - sticking it all together - some blue tac.

In the aftertaste, the sweetness fades a little, but we've still got the consistency of the fruitiness to rely on, in this case in the form of pineapple. A bit of toffee keeps the sweet flag flying but soon fades to a slight saltiness and finishes with a slight dulling: mostly leather and tannins.

~£32 (70cl)

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We've always scored out of 10 in our group (see number in red box, below), with scores regularly given across that spectrum. The value out of 100 below is adjusted to the scale most commonly used for whisky reviews, to allow for better comparison.

67 / 100