Springbank 21 Years 70 cl. 46%

Autumn release 2023

Springbank 21 Year Old has been an iconic release ever since the legendary bottlings of the 1980s. The quality is still towering, and the whiskey is incredibly complex with many layers of Springbank’s characteristic maritime notes that lift the mountain and transport the taster to the windswept shores of the Mull of Kintyre. Springbank 21 Year Old is only released in limited quantities each year, so there is only one thing to say: good luck!

It is bottled at 46% alcohol and is never dyed or cold-filtered.

Colour: Amber.
Scent: Complex scent with notes of i.a. Christmas cake, ginger and honey.
Tasting notes: Salted caramel, cocoa, red berries and sticky toffee pudding.

Serving suggestion: Enjoy it plain.

At Springbank, 3 distinct types of whiskey are produced, which differ on a number of parameters. The classic Springbank has a light peat smoke. The smoke level is indicated (somewhat imprecisely) with a measurement of phenol in the finished malted barley and is approximately 10-15 “parts per million” (the malt is dried for 6 hours with peat smoke and 30 hours with hot air). Springbank is also distilled 2.5 times. “Longrow” – a strongly smoked variant was first made in 1973. Here the smoke is up to 50-55 ppm, the malt is dried for 48 hours with peat smoke, and it is distilled twice. The newest variant, Hazelburn, saw the light of day in 1997 when, for the first time, they tried completely unsmoked and triple-distilled whiskey. Of the approximately 175,000 liters the small Campbeltown distillery produces per year, 80% is Springbank, approximately 10% Longrow and 10% Hazelburn.

Regardless of which variant you’re after, Springbank is worth getting to know. It is the favorite distillery of many whiskey geeks and for good reason! As the only distillery in Scotland, they malt all the barley they need themselves. Color is never added and the whiskey is not chill-filtered.