Springbank 10 Year

A deceivingly modest bottle for such a characterful whisky. Many legs that drip into a straw-colored spirit. Difficult to pick up distinct notes in the nose, but makes you think of the sea. Now, for the taste: you know that practical joke where you loosen the cap of a salt dispenser, and some poor chap's steak is buried in salt? Imagine eating that steak, and you know what the first sip is like. And the ones after that. After a while, it does leave some space for fruity and nutty notes, but only a little. The finish, however, is one of the best I ever experienced: the salt combines perfectly with the moderate smoke and provides a worthy finish to a whisky is surely to divide the room.

One of those rich whiskys that impresses me, but that isn't my style, it has a rich and subtle offering of fruits and peat, an amazingly precise myriad of flavours. Maybe it's the spice that put me off, but even if I don't like it, I really do want to dry the Longrow whisky by the same distillery.

Резко и горчит. Когда постояло на воздухе минут 10, то стало поприятнее, но всё равное не нравится.