Springbank 12 Years Old Cask Strength Batch 16 56.3% NV

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Distillery Springbank
Bottler OB
Serie Cask Strength - Batch 16
Bottled for X
Distilled date Not Specified
Bottling date 26.07.2017
Country Scotland
Region Campbeltown
Age 12
Cask Type 70% Sherry / 30% Bourbon Casks
Cask Number BOTTLE CODE 04/01/18 18/001
Alcohol percentage 56.5
Volume 0,70
Condition In Original Container
Label Perfect
Stock 0

Professional reviews

Serge Valentin (91)

Colour: gold.

Nose: Wow, kaffir lime, coconut, soot, embrocations, salted peanuts, some grizzly peat, smoky bacon, some kind of rather tropical-edged saison beer and smoked mussels. Goes on with chalk, preserved lemons, waxes, salted liquorice and anchovy paste. With water: some kind of smoky muesli. Notes of warm grist, lamp oil, sack cloth and a few green apple peelings and some good quality pear cider (perry).

Mouth: immensely oily and fatty, all on diesel fumes, boiler smoke, tar liqueur, beach pebbles, kelp, rope, fishing nets, various ointments and a lick of antiseptic. Also aspirin, chalk and squid ink. With water: more coconut, toasted this time and with lots of antiseptic, light medicine, some roasted game meats, lanolin, bay leaf, lemon thyme and a little green banana.

Finish: Long, medical, coastal, oily, slightly fishy in a good way, black pepper, more liquorice and a little briny note.

Comments: Always an essential bottling in my view. And, after such a run of drams, I think it’s safe to say that while Springbank was always putting out totally stunning whiskies, its base distillate really improved since the early 1990s.


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