Springbank 14 Years Old

Bourbon Wood

700ml / 55.8%

Single Malt

$628

A Springbank single malt, a 14 year old, from 2002 from the distillery, at 55.8%. Maritime and complex, showing sea spray, oily fruit and faint smoke and honey, vanilla and a gentle oak. Complex, coastal and oily. From the family owned Springbank distillery. A revered Campbeltown single malt. Complex, coastal and deep.

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SKU SPB224 Categories Campbeltown, Scottish Whisky, Springbank, Whiskey Brand: Springbank

Description

This official Springbank single malt, a 14 year old release from 2002 and bottled at 55.8%. Just 9000 bottles were filled. Springbank, distilling since 1828 in Campbeltown, is prized for its rich, oily, hand made spirit. The distillery champions the old, slow, labour intensive way of making whisky.

This was distilled the Springbank way, two and a half times from floor malted barley, 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.

Undiluted at 55.8%, it is intense. 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. The close is rich, fruit over a saline depth. This is the flagship malt of old Campbeltown.