Springbank

Springbank is one of the surviving last Distillerie S of Whiskey of the area of Campbeltown in the Mull off Kintyre in Scotland.

Distilling (founded in 1828 by Archibald Mitchell, back large father of the current owner) is the property of the Mitchell family. Springbank is one of rare distillings always belonging to a family. One of the reasons of this scarcity is that the near total of its whiskey is sold in Single malt and thus does not enter the manufacture of Blend S. the large conglomerates thus did not have to buy Springbank to make sure the production of their blends. Springbank thrived quickly until in the years 1920, then struck full whip by the crisis like other distillings of Campbeltown, it closed 1926 with 1935.

Springbank is last distilling in Scotland to continue to control all the stages of the manufacture of the whiskey, since the old Malt of the Orge until the setting in bottles. She endeavors to preserve traditional know-how. The barley (of biological culture) is cultivated locally, dried and malted in its own surfaces of malting. Distilling has 1 wash still, 2 spirit stills and practical curious and single double Distillation and half. The produced whiskey is not filtered cold and nor not coloured artificially.

The whiskeys of Springbank are fine, elegant, with iodine and spice points while being crémeux.

Distilling produces three types distinct from individual malt (only two other distillings in Scotland produce more than one individual malt: Log Lomond and Tobermory).

  • Springbank is the individual main thing malt produced with distilling. Its maturation is done in various types of barrels: bourbon, rum, Madeira or sherry.
*Springbank 10 years 46%
*Springbank 15 years
*Springbank 21 years (an increasingly rare version)
  • Longrow is a heavy whiskey and dug peat. It is one of the whiskeys currently most dug peat on the market. Its name points out an old distilling now disappeared. Its first distillation took place in 1987.
*Longrow 10 years
  • Hazelburn is the last born of distilling. Its first distillation take place in 1997 and it will not be bottled before 2007. It bears to him also the name of a disappeared local distilling.
Springbank produces also its clean blends: Campbeltown Log 5 years and Mitchell' S 12 years.

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