Longrow 18 Years Old

An official Longrow single malt matured to 18 year old and bottled at 46%. The Springbank distillery, established in 1828, is one of only three distilleries left in Campbeltown. Water comes from Crosshill Loch, the barley malted on the distillery's own floors.

The make was given Longrow's double distillation of heavily peated barley, and worm tub cooled in the old way. A sherry butt held it, the wood lending raisin and walnut. Past a decade the oily spirit deepens, fruit and salt knitting with the oak. The oily, robust make carries cask flavour while holding its own character. 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 46% it is soft, oily and coastal. Raisin, fig and a vanilla sweetness meets smoke, tar and an oily maritime depth. The mouthfeel is oily, the fruit carried on a salty body. A long finish smoulders on salt and oil. This is Springbank's heavily peated Longrow.