Springbank 1974 27 Year Old Ian Macleod

Springbank 1997 1st Batch

Let me just start by explaining how this went down. This was the first of the more recent line of Springbank vintage releases. It's almost 10 years old, and aged in re-charred sherry casks for maximum effect in the shortest time. Either way, the whisky community was going nuts over this one, and I picked up a bottle, I didn't like it. At all. So...

Score 85/100

Springbank Kilkerran

On my recent visit to Springbank I was also able to taste Kilkerran 5 year old. This is Spingbank's sister operation in old Glengyle Distillery in Campbeltown. The overall taste is older than you would imaging from a 5 year old, but it holds a lot of promise for the future. The nose of itself is bit alcoholic, but it warms up nicely. The taste is...

Score 60/100

Springbank 15 Year Old

I thank @cpstecroix for the reviewed sample. This is a review of the standard distillery bottling Nose: medium intensity cereal-style barley-malt, very noticeable brine, some peat and smoke, but not a lot. Yes, this is prototypical Springbank. The flavours are mostly medium-pitched and slightly higher than medium-pitched. The wood flavours are...

Score 87/100

Springbank 21 Year Old bottled 1990s

Nose: Spicy stuff, followed by fruitier sultanas, some black currant, cranberries, a dash of salt, while still quite sugary as in Demerara sugars, grape peel and a very faint hint of tobacco. a very nice and complex nose. Palate: Spicy and pepper on entry too, with a lot of classy old wood, dusty cellar sort of, then enters the fruit, with a...

Score 93/100