Springbank 16-year-old Local Barley
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Springbank |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | Local Barley |
| Vintage | 1999 |
| Bottled Year | 2016 |
| Age | 16년 |
| Cask Type | 80% Ex-Bourbon, 20% Ex-Sherry |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | 9000 |
| ABV | 54.3% |
| Volume | 700 ml 750 ml |
| Label | Prisma barley from Low Machrimore farm (Peninsula, Kintyre) |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Campbeltown |
Prisma barley from Low Machrimore farm (Peninsula, Kintyre)
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
pale gold
air Nose
same family, and that’s very obvious on the nose, even if this one has a bit of varnish, possibly from the higher strength. Similar metallic/mineral profile, with perhaps a little more grapefruit and lemon, but the soot and ashes are well there. The shoe polish as well. With water: takes water extremely well. In other words, more quality shoe polish ;-)
restaurant Palate
this is really very good, and totally up my alley. Sharp, sooty, very zesty, slightly pungent, with a perfect minerality and a grassy side that reminds me a bit of that Spanish white wine that can be very good (and sometimes awful, to be honest), verdejo. With water: oh yes it swims well. Perfect lemon, soot, paraffin (the good side of paraffin), ashes… What it’s not quite got, and which was in the 1978, is salt
timer Finish
long, lemony, grassy, and sooty. In other words, perfect. A medicinal side in the aftertaste (iodine, antiseptic)