Springbank 10 Year Old

Compare this review to the last I did a few weeks ago.

Nose: Longrow-style peat, Longrow-style kerosene sweetness, sour caramel, light smoke.

Palate: Kiwi, Longrow-style peat, toffee, brown sugar, light smoke.

Finish: Sea salt, smoke, faint leather, caramel, marshmellow.

This newer Springbank 10 is pleasant but nowhere as interesting as the last one I tasted. Much less complexity and more Longrow characteristics. If I didn't know better, I would think that some Longrow did indeed creep into the bottling I tasted from early 2013.

I'm not positive about the day this whisky was bottled. The bartender at Bar Bar (Mississippi Studios) tonight was fairly uncool, and wouldn't let me look inside the bottle, myself. He did take nearly full bottle into a side room (with more light) and attempted to read the label himself, mostly out of curiosity on his part. I can't imagine the year being wrong, but the day could be wrong. The bartender had one of those personalities that is instantly disagreeable without any conspicuous signs of out and out rudeness.

I was a little disappointed upon arriving that the bottle I had tasted a few weeks ago had been drunk. Perhaps my youtube (the whisky kirk) review was partly to blame. It's gotten quite a few hits in a short amount of time.

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