Initially released in Australia in 2017, the long awaited and heavily anticipated 12-year-old was the inaugural core-range (albeit scarcely available) release from Glengyle/Kilkerran distillery (sister distillery to Springbank).
2024 Bottling
Official Tasting Notes:Â
Nose:Â Oak notes are dominant, followed by toasted marshmallows and dried fruit pudding, as well as cherries, marzipan and a hint of peat
Palate: Initially fruity with citrus notes and orange peel, after this: vanilla, butterscotch, honeycomb and digestive biscuits can all be tasted and enjoyed
Finish:Â Velvet and smooth with lemon meringue, to conclude, there’s an oiliness and a saltiness that you’d expect from a Campbeltown dram.
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Serge from WhiskyFun.com’s tasting notes:
Nose: Pristine lemony/chalky/sooty start, then rather broken branches and a touch of liquorice wood, as well as hints of bandages and tiger balm. Perhaps barbecued herbs, perhaps thyme and rosemary? I can’y seem to find anything bad to say about this nose.
Palate: Impeccably old-style, sooty, rather peaty, peppery, lemony, and really very salty. It is totally distillate-forward, which is always something we enjoy at WF Towers. I find there’s something ‘old Springbank’ to this baby that goes straight into my personal pantheon of readily available large-batch malts.
Finish: Long, with perhaps a few more notes of bonbons, but the salty tang and the lingering peppery peat still play first fiddles.
Comments: Ah, yes, I’ve got something bad to say, it’s a shame that this was to be expected, and that consequently, no good surprises could occur. I may write a letter. 90 points.
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