Springbank 1997 Private Bottling
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Springbank |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | Private Bottling |
| Vintage | 1997 |
| Bottled Year | 2008 |
| Age | 21년 |
| Cask Type | 1st Fill Sherry Cask |
| Cask Number | 295 |
| Bottles Released | 267 |
| ABV | 51.2% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Campbeltown |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
노즈는 점토와 석유, 양모의 라놀린 같은 기름진 인상으로 열리며 분필 같은 약재 향이 뒤따른다. 곡물과 굴뚝 그을음, 발효 중인 워시의 뉘앙스가 겹치고 겨자 가루와 후추의 톡 쏘는 기운이 명확하게 드러난다. 51.2도의 팰럿은 장뇌와 금속 광택제, 타르와 요오드, 부순 조개껍데기가 밀려들며 타협이 없다. 피니시는 길고 뼈처럼 건조하다. 21년 숙성분이지만 순도와 힘이 그대로 살아 있다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
pale white wine
air Nose
really another era of whisky production. This rather fat and greasy nose that feels almost viscerally textural. Clay, petrol, oily sheep wool, lanolin and some pure, brutal and pretty chalky medical aromas. Develops the most astoundingly pure medical aroma with the leanest of peat profiles. Cereals, chimney soot, kiln air and the rather fermentary note of distillery wash and carbolic acidity. It’s also rather tangy with things like horseradish, mustard powder and various shades of ground pepper. Humbling and pretty astonishing whisky. With water: the very definition of purity in malt whisky. Putty, clay, ointments, embrocations, raw seawater, petrol, mineral salts and bandages
restaurant Palate
immense arrival. Camphor, metal polish, soot, waxes, tar, iodine, peat, crushed seashells and the most brutal, raw and powerful medical embrocations imaginable. Utterly uncompromising, direct and powerful whisky. Unlike anything else. Cereals, chalk, acidity, flint smoke, ink, fabrics and paraffin. Another whisky that you could just go on with forever. With water: astonishing. Extraordinary. A Venn diagram of medicine, salinity and waxiness with a clarity of personality and a level purity, precision and power that is heart-stopping
timer Finish
long, bone-dry, austere but also charismatic in the extreme and still touching on these core aspects of purity, medicine and raw, controlled power