Content with the tag: Springbank

Arran Distillery

The Arran Dis­tillery is located at Lochranza, Scot­land, the only dis­tillery on the Isle of Arran. Arran Dis­tillery was founded in 1995 and is the first legal dis­tillery built on the Isle of Arran in over 150 years. The water…

New Distillery Manager at Springbank

 This came in on Mon­day from Spring­bank. Gavin McLach­lan, a local guy, will carry on the Spring­bank tra­di­tion. We wish him all the best! (Accord­ing to my con­tact at Spring­bank, cur­rent Dis­tillery Man­ager Stu­art Robert­son will be mov­ing over to Dun­can Tay­lor to over­see the build­ing of their new distillery.)

Local man to take over production […]

Review: Springbank, Oloroso Sherry Butt, 12 yr. old

Spring­bank, Oloroso Sherry Butt, 12 year old, 51.5%, $113
Full sherry impact, but the Spring­bank char­ac­ter does man­age to fight its way through it. Thick, sweet notes of tof­fee and molasses are accen­tu­ated by dark raisin, golden raisin, prune, date nut cake, and fruit gum drops. Nutty, briny, rhum agri­cole fin­ish. A Spring­bank for sherry lovers. […]

Springbank 18 yr. old returns to the U.S.

The press release just came in. It’s the new Springer 18. And it’s a lower price than the 2009 release, which is always good news. Judg­ing by their tast­ing notes, it looks like the whisky is from sherry casks. (And I think I had a wee taste at a WhiskyFest some­where along the way recently […]

Springbank 1997, 11YO (Madeira Wood)

This whisky is fully matured in Madeira wood and is a new release from Spring­bank. It is matured in Madeira Wood for 11 years and bot­tled in Jan­u­ary 2009. Rich, sweet, spicy. One of the big hits at 2009 year’s…

Springbank Distillery

Spring­bank is one of only two dis­til­leries in Scot­land to per­form every step in the whisky mak­ing process, from malt­ing the bar­ley to bot­tling the spirit, on same premises: the other is Kil­choman Dis­tillery who also grow their own barley.…