Springbank 12 Year Old Bottled 1980s

Springbank 21 Year Old Dumpy Bottle

Let me just come out and say this. Springbank is tied with Ardbeg and Amrut as my favorite distillery in the whole world. Not only are they a genius distillery (creating three expressions from the same equipment!) they also claim to be the only distillery that performs the complete production process in its own facilities — including floor...

Score 94/100

Springbank 13 Year Old CS for The Nectar

This 13 Year Old Springbank was bottled for the Belgian market, ordered by The Nectar. Only 186 bottles were released. It is a single bourbon cask, bottled at a no nonsense 56,9% ABV. The nose is pretty similar to the Duncan Taylor NC² bottle I recently tried, meaning that it is pretty sweet. But there the comparison ends. Here I get, next to the...

Score 86/100

Springbank CV

When I was in Chicago a while back I picked up the Springbank Trio of CV’s. Basically, this was three bottles of 200mL each of Springbank CV, Longrow CV, and Hazleburn CV. Here is my impression of the Springbank Nose: Soot mixed with barley and corn. There is malt here with some peat, but it is the burnt smell that dominates. It kind of reminds me...

Score 82/100

Springbank 9 Year Old 2004 Gaja Barolo

Springbank likes to experiment with casks. For this young malt they used Gaja Barolo wine casks. Barolo is an Italian red wine, in this case casks from the cellars of the world famous (for wine lovers at least) Angelo Gaja. It is a double maturation instead of a finish. After all, after 4 years of maturation on bourbon casks the whisky was...

Score 84/100