Southern California Whiskey Club is pleased to host David Allen for a rare deep dive into the Springbank family of whiskies. We will start with a welcome cocktail crafted by Neat, featuring Campbeltown Loch Blended Malt Scotch Whisky.

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the lineup

1. Springbank 10 Year, 46% ABV

2. Springbank 12 Year, Cask Strength, 55.9% ABV

3. Springbank 15 Year, 46% ABV

4. Hazelburn 13 Year, Oloroso Cask, 47.4% ABV

5. Longrow Red, 11 Year, Pinot Noir Cask, 53.1% ABV

6. Kilkerran “Heavily Peated”, 7 Year, Bourbon Cask, 55.4% ABV

7. Special bottle hand carried by David Allen

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As a special note, Neat will be pouring additional Springbank expressions at a discount just for this event.

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about the distillery

Springbank is unique for one very important reason: few distilleries in Scotland do their own malting; of those, only one malts 100% of their barley - Springbank. Springbank is Scotland's oldest legal distillery, with its license granted in 1828. Quite remarkably, it is still under the ownership of the founding family and is only one of two distilleries in Campbeltown which survived the ravages of prohibition in the States, which killed off 30 or so others in the town.

 

Each Springbank bottling is a unique product and highly sought after. There is a commonality between all of these: their unique-to-Springbank distillation method; 2 and half times as they call it, and all are gently peated.

 

Then there are the other versions. Longrow is fully peated and distilled, more conventionally, twice. 

 

The final product from Springbank is Hazelburn, which is the non-peated, three-times distilled version. 

 

Then, there is Kilkerran. This is a separate distillery, previously known as Glengyle, which the Springbank owners re-opened in the early 2000s. Kilkerran is made with the same attention to detail as Springbank, and like all the others, and a supreme example of the finest Scotch.  [link]