Springbank 40 Year Old 1969 Signatory

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

Springbank 19 Year Old 1991 Murray McDavid

This Springbank was bottled last year by Murray McDavid at the Bruichladdich distillery (which they owned at the time) and released under the Mission Gold label. It is very pale, despite having matured on a refill sherry cask. The nose is slightly mineraly and somewhat dusty. I am reminded of jute. But it mostly offers up sweet touches of hard...

Score 86/100

Springbank 12 Year Old 2003 Duty Paid Sample

Here is another one of those ‘duty paid’ samples that you can only get at the distillery itself. This time it’s a Springbank 2003 brought home in 2016. It was part of the by now infamous Christmas Tasting with Michiel Wigman from last December. I was lucid enough to keep a sample for returning to it. Oh, lest I forget: this matured on a rum cask!...

Score 89/100

Springbank 10 Year Old Local Barley

This bottling, launched at the end of 2017, is the third of five annual "local barley" releases announced by Springbank in 2016. It comes after the first release, a 16-year old, and the second release, an 11-year old. This third release was made with barley from the West Backs Farm in Campbeltown, 70% getting matured in ex-bourbon casks...

Score 88/100