Springbank 1995 Cask Strength TWE

Springbank 12 Year Old Cask Strength

Springbank 12 Cask strength, Batch 14, bottled in January 2017 at 54.2% Mull of Kintyre, oh mist rolling in from the sea, My desire is always to be here, Oh Mull of Kintyre Ok, so Springbank of Campbeltown doesn’t exactly hail from the Mull of Kintyre, but it’s well south on the Kintyre Peninsula – and “as the crow flies” it’s only a mere 10...

Score 90/100

Springbank 10 Year Old

[Reposted from my Blog: See Profile] Springbank is a composite of rarities. It is one of the very few distilleries that performs the entire distillation process from malting on-site (its own floor maltings) to bottling in its private bottling plant. In fact, it is the only fully self-sufficient distillery in Scotland. Located in Campbeltown on the...

Score 83/100

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 12 Year Old 100 Proof

color: burnt copper nose: dried fruit, sherry, coconut, light sea salt and smoke, and apple. lots of dates, eucalyptus and mango, and a touch of clove (as it gets some time in the glass) palate: slightly more sherry, and alcoholic verve. dried, waxy fruit follows with a mild, smoky finish. This was the European bottling. As good as it is right...

Score 95/100