Picked a couple of these up online recently, likely paid too much but that's the market. Nose - classic springbank funk. Heavy vanilla icing, salted malt, and some dark red wine notes. Very much taking on some levels of soy sauce notes with classic springbank sweet and funky notes. You can't miss the distinct springbank. Water brings out sweetness, alcohol, and showcases these wine casks. Taste - The taste is more springbank springbank and springbank . Reminds me a hell of a lot of a 12 CS. Water makes this drink a lot sweeter, as we all know at CS SB wants us to play with water and I think a drop or two really is a perfect spot. The wine casks really jump out and you really get that burgundy profile. At the same time the whisky remains springbank funk with that salty and ever so slightly peated whisky notes. This is hands down my favorite 12 year (it's about 12.5 years old) old whisky to date. It's not really significantly better than a 12 CS and to be honest side by side I'd be interested in how different they are. Actually - test. So 56.2 which isn't my favorite 12, but the first one I grabbed. So this 12 is seriously not one of their better ones, been drinking on some others, wow. OK so a bit more bite to the funk. The finish is a bit more citrus and lingering, the higher use of likely refill bourbon casks gives off more oak funk and bitterness. Overall the 12 CS as you'd expect is a much more old world type funky, sour, bitter experience. Meanwhile the Burgundy is more BBQ, salt, savory and sweeter. Anyway, I'm digging this 12 year Burgundy wood. It's springbank through and through (and yeah I'm saying this because other reviews have said otherwise, and I cannot more strongly disagree and I'm someone with 30 or so springbanks on the shelf), but it adds this incredible finishing and I find I like a depth in the finishing that sometimes gets lost on more used casks. 3.75