Springbank 1997 Private Bottling Cask Owners Blum, Rieflin, Hundertpfund, Laessle, Haecker

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Springbank
Bottler	Distillery Bottling
Bottling Series	Cask Owners Blum, Rieflin, Hundertpfund, Laessle, Haecker
Vintage	1997
Bottled Year	2010
Age	12년
Cask Type	Fresh Sherry Wood
Cask Number	07/168-21
Bottles Released	168
ABV	46.0%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Campbeltown

Flavor Profile

Fruity

Sweet

Dried Fruit

Oaky

Creamy

Vanilla

Honey

Smoky

Peaty

Spicy

Citrus

Nutty

Maritime

Herbal

Chocolate

Floral

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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