Springbank Sherry Wood 17 year old, 52.3%, $130
We are all keen to laud start-up whisky-making ventures, and buzz phrases like “hand-crafted” and “artisanal” are bandied about with gay abandon. But we tend to forget that in the distilling outpost of Campbeltown, the Springbank distillery has been operating on a hand-crafted, artisanal basis for the best part of two centuries.
Springbank malts all its own barley requirements in-house on a traditional malting floor, it mashes in a cast iron open mash tun, and the wash still is both directly-fired and internally steam-heated. Finally, the mature spirit is bottled on-site.
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