About Springbank 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
At Springbank, they don't just make whisky, they craft it with love, passion, and a whole lot of peat. Their single malts are distilled 2.5 times, just enough to extract the perfect essence of the malted barley — and they do it all in-house, using techniques passed down through generations. The Springbank 15-Year-Old, a true gem of the Campbeltown region, is a single malt whisky that reminds of a storm brewing off the Kintyre coast. It’s dark, brooding, and complex — and it will leave you yearning for more. It's crafted annually with lightly peated barley and in small batches while delivering a high standard of quality and affordability. Bottled at 46% ABV without any filtration or coloring, it offers a rich and peaty character, filled with flavors of sooty kiln smoke, barbecued beef jerky, clove, mint, iodine, oxo cube, tinned prunes, and lobster creels, culminating in a finish that slowly develops into notes of soot, leather, and walnuts, echoing the ebb and flow of the tide over Kintyre's pebble beaches. Best savored after dinner or with a fine cigar.
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About Springbank
Nearly two centuries ago, the town of Campbeltown, located on a narrow peninsula in southwest Scotland, was considered the whiskey capital of the world. Passengers arriving by sea at Campbeltown Loch, nestled between Macringan's Point and the rocky island of Davaar, were greeted with the sails and masts of the herring fishing fleet and the smoking chimneys of nearly thirty different distilleries that called Campbeltown home. Two hundred years later, Campbeltown Loch is considerably quieter and only three chimneys continue to billow smoke — each acting as a beacon for an industry that, at one point, dominated the peninsula.
In 1828, Springbank Distillery was founded on the site of Archibald Mitchell's illicit still in Campbeltown (today, Mitchell's great-great-great-grandson owns the distillery). Within ten years, its whiskey was so well-regarded that a blender by the name of Johnnie Walker purchased 118 gallons of whisky from Springbank at 43 pence a gallon.
By the turn of the century — as worldwide demand for Scotch whisky seemed insatiable — distilleries throughout Scotland began cutting corners and outsourcing parts of the distillation process. Springbank Distillery, however, remained true to its Scottish heritage. Today, it remains one of only two distilleries in Scotland to perform every step of the whiskey making process — from malting barley to bottling whisky — on the same premises.
After malting and lightly peating the barley (using locally cut peat), Springbank Distillery mills and mashes it in cast-iron mash tuns that are nearly a century old. The pure spring water used during the mashing process is sourced from Crosshill Loch, which in turn is fed by springs seeping from the northern slopes of 1100-foot tall Beinn Ghuilean. After mashing the grains, the wash is slowly fermented over the course of 70 hours — one of the longest fermentation processes in Scotland — before being distilled 2.5 times (because some of the wash is distilled twice and some is distilled three times, Springbank Whisky is said to be distilled 2.5 times).
About Scotch
Scotch is the most popular whisky in the world and is considered the king of them all! There are five whisky regions in Scotland (six if you count the not officially recognized Islands), and each of them produces spirits with unique properties and distinct tasting notes. (The type of grain used determents the type of the scotch.)
Malt whisky is made of malted barley, and grain whisky uses other grains like corn or wheat. Most of the time, a whisky is blended from different distilleries hence the name blended scotch, but if a malt whisky is produced in a single distillery, we get something extraordinary called a single malt.
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