Springbank has been on my list to try for a while, but I always seemed to gravitate towards something else. Thankfully @ctbeck11 took me on a Springbank, Longrow and Hazelburn flight to help highlight this distillery and provide a few samples, this and a few others for me to dive into. The nose is very light but starts with hay and light citrus fruits of lemon, orange maybe even some peach that have ocean sea salt sprinkled over them with a vanilla cream and subtle light peat there but in the background wrapping them together with light ethanol burn. The taste is an oily mouthfeel with hay, light citrus fruits of lemon, orange with sea salt, vanilla cream, ginger and light peat all just intermingling together with a light ethanol burn finishing medium length with hay, sea salt, vanilla cream, lemon and orange, ginger and a cave mineral wet rock flavor that lingers for minutes. Now that I’ve finished the sample, I might need to get a bottle to work through and find more notes in. This is a great VFM for 80 dollars and I’m looking forward to the rest of the Springbank samples if this is what their 10 year has to offer.