A bottle of the well-established mauve-packaged 18 Year Old Springbank. The multi-award-winning Campbeltown single malt has been matured in ex-bourbon casks, so expect a big, coastal, oily flavour from this one.
Toasted bananas, honey and bakewell tarts with coastal hints. Quite oily.
Big, spicy and gutsy, with notes of chilli, pine, citrus, aniseed and rich fruits.
Long, salty, chocolate caramels with hints of smoky fruit.
Simply amazing, can't get enough of this one
Drink the damn whisky how you like, even if that means adding water, adding ice, or chilling it. Whatever you like! Just no mixing this! Can't imagine it would be very good mixed anyway.
Just had a bottle given as a present. Midway through my first dram which I treated as I do all single malts. A dash of chilled bottled water and a small ice cube. Wonderful with rich flavouring and a lingering finish.
It's not snobbery to advise against chilling this high quality and expensive whisky any more than it is snobbery to advise against putting a wool sweater in the dryer
I know this distillery has a cult following but I have still yet to find an official bottling of this that has matched a SMWS bottling I had that has been head and shoulders above the 10/12/15/cv/cask strength and now the 18 yo. Now don't get me wrong they are well made and enjoyable enough but I still fail to get blown away by this. Distinctive earthy, oily oatmeal I would expect from Springbank, add in some spicy coconut with some smoky strawberry and berries, anise and some peppery sweet pine oak but for me this just fails to live upto the hype. The Whisky Flaneur
