Springbank 12 Years Old Cask #Batch 23

This official Springbank single malt, a 12 year old, drawn from cask Batch 23 and bottled at 55.9%. The Springbank distillery, in Mitchell family hands since 1828, is prized for its rich, oily, hand made spirit. Hedley Wright's family has kept the distillery independent for the best part of two centuries.

The make was distilled two and a half times from lightly peated, floor malted malt, and condensed in traditional worm tubs. A refill American oak cask held it, keeping the distillery character to the fore. By this age the maritime weight rounds into a richer, fuller malt. Long maturation suits the heavy, characterful make, the cask knitting slowly with the spirit. 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.

At a natural 55.9% it is full and oily. A coastal, waxy spirit with gentle peat meet vanilla, cream and light coconut from the cask. Beneath it run oily fruit, salt and a coastal depth. It closes long, oily and salty. This is the flagship malt of old Campbeltown.