Springbank 12 Years Old

This official Springbank single malt, a 12 year old Campbeltown malt and bottled at 43%. Springbank is a Campbeltown distillery run by J and A Mitchell since 1828, Campbeltown's most revered surviving distillery. The distillery champions the old, slow, labour intensive way of making whisky.

It was floor malted, lightly peated and distilled two and a half times, and condensed in traditional worm tubs. It was matured in refill ex-Bourbon oak, lending vanilla and honey. 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. 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. Today just three distilleries survive in the old Kintyre whisky town. The maritime warehouses by the sea lend the malt its briny, oily depth.

At 43% it is clean and characterful. An oily, maritime character with light peat are layered with vanilla, cream and light coconut. Beneath it run oily fruit, salt and a coastal depth. A long, oily, coastal finish lingers. This is the flagship malt of old Campbeltown.