• Nose: 23 Palate: 23 Finish: 23 Balance: 22 Total: 91
  • Nose: Dried fruit and gentle, funky, musty peat
  • Palate: Prunes and buttery sautéed walnuts
  • Finish: Long and nutty - Thanksgiving desserts: pecan pie with cloves, candied walnuts
  • Type: Single Malt
  • Age: 12
  • ABV: 54.4%
  • Distiller: Springbank
  • Where made: Campbeltown, SCOTLAND
  • Region: Campbeltown
  • Approximate Price: $1200
  • Value: POOR

Tasted this delicious dram at Amherst Coffee & Bar (Amherst MA). The price of the dram was reasonable (under $20), considering how rare and expensive this bottle is today. The whisky was distilled at Springbank in May 1997, spent 9 years in a refill bourbon barrel and then 3 years in a fresh claret cask, and was bottled in February 2010. I assume that the whisky was much less expensive at the time it was purchased, and hence the reasonable price for a pour.