Springbank 12-year-old Pear Shape Bottle White / Black label

CategorySINGLE MALT
DistillerySpringbank
BottlerDistillery Bottling
Bottling SeriesPear Shape Bottle White / Black label
Vintage-
Bottled Year-
Age12년
Cask Type-
Cask Number-
Bottles Released-
ABV46.0%
Volume750 ml
Label-
CountryScotland
RegionCampbeltown
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Flavor Profile

Smoky
Oaky
Fruity
Spicy
Peaty
Sweet
Maritime
Nutty
Vanilla
Honey
Dried Fruit
Herbal
Creamy
Floral
Citrus
Chocolate

Tasting Notes

Colour

white wine (much paler than the ‘white cap’)

air Nose

this one starts a little more spirity and less mature than the white cap, with much more grainy and fruity notes (apples, pears) and much less minerals or smoke. There’s also notes of wet cardboard, soaked grains, very light coffee, apple juice... But the notes of raw wool are here again. Not exactly the same class as the older version I think, even if both start to converge after a good fifteen minutes

restaurant Palate

this is very different again. Big notes of pear spirit, figs, crystallised lemon zests, smoked fish... And then more and more pear spirit. Pears and kippers? Yes, it’s very unusual whisky I think, I can’t think of any other whisky that tasted like this funny CV

timer Finish

longer than the white cap’s, very bold in fact, with these interesting notes of ‘apple juice-soaked kippers’ (sorry about this weird mental image) and a slight dustiness, plus something oddly metallic. Extremely unusual. Again, I’m wondering if they didn’t use to add some Longrow to the CV, even if not to all the batches

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