Springbank 12 Years Old Cask #Batch 6

This official Springbank single malt, a 12 year old, drawn from cask Batch 6 and bottled at 53.1%. The Springbank distillery, a family distillery since 1828, is campbeltown's most revered surviving distillery. Small output and a cult following keep its bottles allocated and keenly sought.

The make was distilled two and a half times from lightly peated, floor malted malt, the vapour cooled in worm tubs. It rested in ex-Bourbon oak, the wood adding a light honeyed sweetness. By this age the maritime weight rounds into a richer, fuller malt. Everything is done on site, the spirit going from still to cask to bottle in Campbeltown. Quality and tradition, not volume, have always been the watchwords here. The spirit is filled to cask and matured within the distillery walls. Few distilleries keep so much of the old craft alive under one roof. Campbeltown was once the whisky capital of the world, with more than thirty distilleries at its peak.

At a hearty 53.1% it carries real weight. An oily, maritime character with light peat are layered with a vanilla and toffee sweetness. Soft fruit and brine sit behind the cask sweetness. It closes long, oily and salty. This is a revered Campbeltown single malt.