Longrow Red 11 Year Old Cabernet Sauvignon Finish

Longrow CV

Twice distilled, unlike Springbank’s 2.5 (or, really, 2.8) and Hazelburn’s thrice distilled, Longrow is the more heavily peated of the Springbank brands of Scotch malt whisky. The CV expression—CV meaning ‘Curriculum Vitae’—is meant to represent the style and range of the various Longrow expressions, though how ‘representative’ it is comes down to...

Score 89/100

Longrow 1994 10 Year Old

I like Springbank, but I love Longrow. Maybe it's because they only distill it a normal 2 times, while the Springbank expressions get a 2.5 times, cause I don't want my whiskies to be too smooth. What got my attention straight away when I held this bottle was all the copious amounts of particles floating around, and the white sediment covering the...

Score 90/100

Longrow Red 12 Year Old Fresh Pinot Noir Casks

Red is a series of Longrow bottlings finished in red wine casks. This is the 4th expression matured in Bourbon Casks for 11 Years and finished in Fresh Pinot Noir Casks from New Zealand for another 12 Months. 9000 Bottles of this were released just recently (i.e. September 2015 if I’m not wrong). As many of you will know, less than 100 Casks of...

Score 88/100

Longrow CV

Tasted a glass of the CV tonight at the pub. It is perhaps a flawed dram in terms of the way all of the elements comingle in the glass, but I was charmed by it. The smoke is quite nice and I was surprised that I enjoyed the tequila-like overtones. Yes, they are in the dram, but they don't overpower. Neither was I off-put by the phantom hint of...

Score 86/100