Springbank 16 Years Old (54.2%)

This official Springbank single malt, a 16 year old from 2000 and bottled at 54.2%. 540 bottles in all. The Springbank distillery, a family distillery since 1828, is campbeltown's most revered surviving distillery. The distillery champions the old, slow, labour intensive way of making whisky.

The make was distilled two and a half times from lightly peated, floor malted malt, and condensed in traditional worm tubs. Maturation in a sherry cask laid dried fruit over the maritime malt. 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. The old town of Campbeltown once rivalled Speyside as Scotland's whisky heart. 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 its natural 54.2% it is concentrated. An oily, maritime character with light peat are layered with dried fruit, fig and walnut. Beneath it run oily fruit, salt and a coastal depth. It closes long, oily and salty. This is the flagship malt of old Campbeltown.