Springbank 12 Year Old Brown Ceramic

Springbank 12 Year Old Cask Strength

My daughter and I had a fantastic Family Day weekend with my parents (and my brother and his family came by as well), we all went skating, had some great meals and, of course, drank like hell; always an Alexander tradition. I brought along this bottle, having never tried it. I was very impressed. It's a lovely dark honey colour, with thick legs in...

Score 91/100

Springbank 12 Year Old Cask Strength

Few distilleries merit the term ‘traditional’ these days. Appealing to tradition has become a pervasive scheme by which large beverage conglomerates market their brands, but it glosses over a great deal of the modernised, mechanised world of today’s whisky production. The Springbank distillery, however, is the archetypal exception. Springbank...

Score 89/100

Springbank 10 Year Old

Nose, Taste, Finish and Balance are graded out of 2.5 each: Nose: Most intriguing. There is a strong waft of pears poached in red wine, however the underlying oak and spice balances it out perfectly. 2.0 Taste: It slides itself effortlessly over the tongue with silky elegance. There is an oily wave of rich fruit, once again counterpointed by the...

Score 80/100

Springbank 21 Year Old Single Cask for Symposion House of Taste

I think we can we can all agree that Springbank 21 Year Old is a grand whisky. An instant classic, so to speak. However, there are quite a few 21 years old single casks out there and this is one of those, bottled in 2016. It’s a young sherry cask for Symposion House of Taste, a whisky club in Malmö, Sweden. Waxy nose! Stonefruit, a truckload of...

Score 88/100