Springbank 12 Year Old Cask Strength

This expression has been lying in my cabinet for quite a while now.. I loved it the first few times I got down to sipping a dram or two from the bottle.. but never got down to writing notes for but this time around when a friend suggested to taste this one since he wanted to write about it.. I thought I'd pen down my thoughts in here as well..

Nose: The strong sherry aroma that greets your nose is great opener for this spirit which had 60% of it left to mature in a first fill and the remainder in a refill Sherry hogshead before being bottled at cask strength. I also found some unmistakable notes of rubber that came through initially maybe because of the oxidation which occurred over the course of time..

Letting it breathe further brings out the sweet caramel interspersed with some aniseed which is quite nice on the nose. For the second dram a drop of water brought out the more floral notes that were probably getting hidden at 55.3% ABV

Palate:The palate's very interesting now.. its more like there's honey and a lot of spices being poured all over your tongue at the same time.. so its like an ooh and aah at the same time.. Got some nice dark chocolate notes coming through as well..and then there's the dryness that begins enveloping your mouth almost instantly and this begins to happen even as the liquid is still in there... quite fascinating for me.

Finish: The finish was fairly long.. I'd say just about perfect ... some sprinkling of white pepper notes .. wet wood.. more like someone had stuck my head in the barrel in which this spirit had matured.. and some mild dryness at the end of it all.

This one definitely left me smiling by the time it was over.

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