A 15-year-old single malt from the Springbank distillery with plenty of sherry notes and spice, dried fruits, and nuts.
Fragrant with a certain richness. Notes of fruit salad and a hint of caramel, pineapple, guava and passion fruit lurk. There are notes of dried leather and old ropes. A hint of toffee sweetness and some granary toast.
Quite full and rich. There are notes of creamy fruit salad and more exotic fruit notes. There is palpable mastication from the oaked tannins with a hint of spice.
Fairly long with a gentle warmth.
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Trying to be positive about this one. But it's not great. On the nose, raisins, some soapy notes, and an acrid perfume bringing to mind vomit & flowers. Yep, vomit. I've had this bottle about 2 weeks now and left it open hoping to clear this up but it's persistent. On the palate, yeah, a little bit of vomity acidic bite along with some sweetness. Complete dud of a bottle. If you ever threw up in your mouth and thought "that wasn't so bad" this could be the whisky for you. So my advice would be to purchase it somewhere you can try before you buy. Maybe if you find a good taster the other bottle in the batch will be good...
Returned from UK yesterday with a 50ml taster. Was shocked that I smelled Bowmore when I poured the glass. Thought it had been mislabeled. Tastes nothing like the Springbank 12 to me. If this one gets categorized as an Islay from Cambeltown, it gets troubling to categorize. At $100/bottle, I won't be returning to this misplaced dram.
I have to agree with a reviewer who said that on blind tasting he could have mistaken it for an Islay malt...has that delicious sootiness - Mifune (EG)
Can't praise this dram enough. Slight soot complex finish and some sublime sweet notes. Tobacco and new leather mixed in.
From a neat pour the nose was initially light and floral with a honeyed sweetness, hints of oats and digestive, vanilla, and salted caramel. As it opened up more notes came forth; late harvest raisins, tropical salad, banana creme, soft buttered pretzel and candied lemon zest. The palate lacked something definitive. It was surprisingly thin yet oily, with a quick muddled taste of oak and spice shrouded in a sulphured maltiness that flashed into an extra long and minty finish. I know batches can vary, and this was honestly nothing like the last Springbank 15 I liked several years ago... the menthol on the finish was a new note that I don't normally associate with Springbank. This sample was a tad bit heavy in the [first fill?] sherried influences, and lacked the core nuttiness and peat-kissed characteristics I love. Undeniably Springbank, and always an enjoyable dram, but this was a new experience altogether.
