Nose - lemon, tangerine, pineapple, flinty peat, vanilla cream, cinnamon, hay, green apple, grape, mild to moderate ethanol burn. Taste - lemon zest, pineapple, sour apple, bitter walnut, cinnamon, vanilla, brine, pear, mild peat, honey, moderate alcohol bite, finishing medium short with lemon, sour apple, and light peat flavors. In my haste to review the delicious 8 Year Society bottling which I thought was my last in the series, I forgot about this 23 Year single cask from Calvert Woodley and bottled at 42.5%. Honestly though, this one is the easiest to forgot. But at less than $200 for the bottle, I couldn’t pass it up. It seemed too good to be true. And it was. The nose is rather fruity and aromatic. The bottle doesn’t indicate which type of cask was used, but I’d wager it was bourbon, as there are some strong similarities between this and my core range 18 Year from 2018. There’s lemon, a tropical quality, and a milder version of the classic barnyard funk. The palate takes a turn for the worse. It’s not bad, but some of the nice aromas on the nose turn sour and bitter with the taste. The mouthfeel is thin and the finish is lacking. Overall, this is better than average but that’s really not acceptable at close to $200 a bottle. The mouthfeel and finish would likely be improved at a higher proof, but I doubt the sourness and bitterness would subside. In the end, this is probably just a dud of a single cask, or at least as close to one as Springbank can produce.