Springbank 30 Years Old

This official Springbank single malt, a 30 year old Campbeltown malt and bottled at 46%. A release of 1400 bottles. 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. It was matured in refill ex-Bourbon oak, lending vanilla and honey. Decades leave it waxy and oxidative, candied fruit and brine with great depth. Long maturation suits the heavy, characterful make, the cask knitting slowly with the spirit. The distillery has become a place of pilgrimage for whisky enthusiasts. Kintyre's damp, mild climate suits a long and gentle maturation. The old town of Campbeltown once rivalled Speyside as Scotland's whisky heart.

At an easy 46% it is gentle. A coastal, waxy spirit with gentle peat meet creamy vanilla and oak sweetness 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.