After my experience with Springbank’s Hazelburn products, I’m pretty excited to dive into one of their heavily peated Longrow products. The nose starts with some sun baked citrus fruits (orange and lemon) with ocean sea spray, then comes a light peat smoke intermingling with short bread cookies and light ethanol burn. The taste is a medium mouthfeel starting with caramel covered shortbread cookies leading to those sun baked citrus fruits then, ocean salt with light coastal rock minerality before a ginger and light chili spice burn that finishes long with light peat, salted sun baked citrus fruits, wet ocean rocks, ginger, a little chili heat and shortbread cookies. This is another delicious whisky by Springbank distillery and one that I would be happy to drink. For a heavily peated whisky, the peat is actually very restrained and allows for those sun baked citrus fruit funk, ocean sea salts and nice minerals to come through with some spice that all works well together without one note overpowering the other, but it just doesn’t really captivate me the way a Hazelburn 10 and 13 did. Big thanks to @ctbeck11 for the sample.