Longrow Fragments Samaroli

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 18 Year 2011

Nose: Weak, Tarry ropes, heather, tundra flowers, curdled milk, caramel. Mouth: Very balanced attack that yields to camphor, bees wax, butterscotch, mild peat, no smoke, Silver Needle white tea, treacle. Finish: More of the same. Smoke comes through at last on the death along with a kiss of peat and sweet. I paid well over two hundred dollars for...

Score 86/100

Longrow 14 Year Old

Described as heavily peated on the bottle, that means something from Islay, but from elsewhere I’m less sure. I’m not detecting much peat in the aroma, the usual pine smoke I associate with Longrow is evident in spades and there is a fruity addition from some apples. There is some attack when you taste it but nothing to rival peated Islay malt....

Score 86/100

Longrow 2000 7 Year Old Gaja Barolo Finish

This whisky is HUGE! a young unbridled monster from longrow. Finnished in Gaja Barolo wine casks and in total only seven years in maturation it is remarkable to see a whisky of such size and immense complexity at this age. Colour: polished wood * Nose: peat, phenol, heavy, more like Islay peat, smoke and a real sweet richness poking its head...

Score 90/100