Matthijs
Springbank 10 Year
Single Malt — Campbeltown, Scotland
Reviewed
November 6, 2016 (edited March 23, 2018)
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.
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