Springbank 16 Year Old ‘Local Barley’

One of the most highly anticipated releases of this year already: Springbank 16 Years Local Barley. It’s easy to see why: Local Barley was an iconic range of 1965 / 1966 expressions released in the 1990s.

Made with prisma barley (a spring barley) grown at Low Machrimore Farm in the south of the Kintyre peninsula, this was distilled in september 1999 and aged for 16 years . There were 80% bourbon casks and 20% European oak sherry casks in the mix.

This is the first of five annual releases (not sure this would mean the last will be a 21...