Springbank 24 Years Old 1999/2024 - Westie Sponge 3 54.5% 700ml

Details：

Distillery: Springbank

Bottler: Decadent Drinks (DeDr)

Bottling serie: Westie Sponge 3

Vintage: 1999

Bottled: 2024

Stated Age: 24 Years Old

Casktype: 1st Fill Sherry Butt

Casknumber: /

Number of bottles: /

Strength: 54.5%

Size: 700ml

Tasting notes：

Nose: Hints of teak wood alongside burlap, tobacco leaves and Strepsils, but also orange liqueur, scuffed leather and earthy minerals. Only Springbank could’ve produced this. There are plums and dates, alongside wispy smoke and blackcurrants. Slivers of raisins, zesty lemons and limes as well. More umami as times goes one. A drop of soy sauce.

Palate: Proper syrupy, oily mouthfeel. Almost vinous. Sweet tobacco, more cherries and crème de cassis also. Just a pinch of black pepper, then a bit of menthol, damp forest floor and aceto di balsamico. And just to stay with the Italian theme, there’s prosciutto too. Just the tiniest whisper of peat, and wonderful dunnage flavours.

Finish: Long. Just slightly dry, lots of tobacco again and a tinge of charcoal.