Sold outNov 2023In short · Springbank (Campbeltown), 30 years.
“Like some steam-powered kitchen, puffs of funnel smoke swirled around grease-coated cogs and buckets of petrol marinade.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 27.114 is a single cask of Springbank, in the Campbeltown region, 30 years old, bottled at 53.7%, released in the Nov 2023 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 27.x is from Springbank.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
In Campbeltown, once, improbably, the whisky capital of the world, Springbank has been run by the same family since 1828 and refuses, gloriously, to modernise. It is the last distillery in Scotland to do everything under one roof, from turning its own malt on the floor to filling its own bottles by hand. From its stills come three different souls: Springbank itself, the heavily peated Longrow, and the triple-distilled Hazelburn. Made in tiny quantity, and chased by the whole world.