Longrow 1996 12 Year Old Fino Sherry Butt

Longrow CV

Springbank distillery is located on the southern Kintyre peninsula and produces three distinct types of single malt: Springbank, Longrow and Hazelburn. Springbank is lightly smoky, Longrow is very smoky and Hazelburn is not smoky at all. The Longrow CV version was first released in 2008 and, as is the case with the Springbank CV and Hazelburn CV,...

Score 85/100

Longrow NAS

This NAS version is the successor of the Longrow CV, a Campbeltown'er from Springbank. Not much to tell, nice and simple packaging, very pale colour. Nose: the name Longrow Peated could suggest that we were dealing with heavily peated, islay-style malt. Instead, to my surprise we only get a slight whiff of smoke, as if you were poking around in...

Score 85/100

Longrow 14 Year Old

Another offering from Campbeltown that will divide the purists and the adventurous. This fourteen year expression spent the last three years in a burgundy hogshead and so comes along with a massive aroma profile. With the smoky peat already a dominant force in this Longrow the strong wine notes fight hard to be noticed; and, boy, do they fight!...

Score 87/100

Longrow Red

As you may know, there are three brands distilled at Springbank: Hazelburn, Springbank and Longrow. Longrow is the peatier version - in fact, all of the barley that goes into Longrow is peat dried (and strictly double distilled, unlike its two stablemates). The brand was an experiment first distilled in 1973 (but not brought to market), named...

Score 73/100