Springbank 1993 Private Cask
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Springbank |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | Private Cask |
| Vintage | 1993 |
| Bottled Year | 2013 |
| Age | 19년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 58.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | White Label |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Campbeltown |
White Label
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
amber
air Nose
even more expressive and bolder than the new 30 yo , and it’s not only the alcohol. Lots of dried oranges, tangerine liqueur and acacia honey, with a balanced and rather subtle sherry in the background. Less smoky than the OB, more jammy, with also notes of strawberry cordial, and then the same kind of farminess, with the peat coming through after a moment (hints of diesel oil, shoe polish). Lots of old pu-erh tea as well, cigar box, incense… Truly magnificent, getting more and more complex with time. Also hints of limoncello liqueur that give the whole more zing. Wow
restaurant Palate
oh yes, this one’s rather symphonic, with a bigger sherry but also more peaty-phenolic flavours than on the nose. Lots of dried oranges, earl grey tea, bitter oranges, getting then very spicy (cloves and black pepper). Just like the Seadragon, it does get a little woody and tannic after a while, though but again, no big deal. Beautiful notes of citrons, lemon juice… More and more peppery, with almost notes of green curry and peppercorns. Rather huge I must say
timer Finish
very long, rather ‘green’, vegetal, with quite some green tea, tannins and a faint ‘cardboardiness’. Okay, the nose was maybe better balanced but the whole is great old Bowmore, with probably more oomph (and subsequently less subtlety) than most of its siblings from the same era. A wild oldie: 91 points. SHOPPING - Fellow Maniac Michel points us towards a special page by Suntory , where they might explain how to build (or buy?) furniture out of old barrels. I wrote ‘might’ because it’s all in Japanese - but it looks very interesting indeed. CRAZY WHISY ADS – THE WAR OF THE DECANTERS part 7 1958: doesn’t modern design sell? Old Fitzgerald is back with a much more classic line ‘For hospitality’s finest hours.’ First attempts to sell decanters outside the pre-Xmas times, but still in winter and still for men (notice the pipe). 1959: more kitsch with Four Roses . ‘Four Roses proudly presents The Diamond of Decanters’. 1959: ‘Sign your name to a holiday masterpiece’. Modern design strikes back with this Calvert decanter – but what’s that golden inkstand behind the bottle? 1959: Seagram’s 7 Crown ‘Give America’s great whiskey and give it in beautiful style – For Christmas… a classic decanter of Seagram’s 7 Crown in its joyous jewel-like holiday dress: What a beautiful way to take the guesswork out of giving! The regular bottle too is available in the same glorious package! Give Seagram and be sure.’ Yes, classic. MUSIC – Highly r ecommended listening: T here are bunches of Zappa fans who play his works, deconstruct them, reconstruct them, and often come up with stupendous pieces, such as this beautiful rendition of Black napkins.mp3 by Alexei Aigui and Dietmar Bonnen , violin and piano. (via the totally excellent website zappafan ). December 12, 2006 CONCERT REVIEW by Nick Morgan DAVID ESSEX Shepherds Bush Empire, London, November 19th 2006 Be honest, we all get conceited, a little bit self-satisfied, just slightly “how bloody clever am I” from time to time. I mean, take
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