Springbank 10 Year Old & Springbank 9 Year Old Cage Bottle Scotch Whisky Review
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Springbank 10 Year Old & Springbank 9 Year Old Cage Bottle Scotch Whisky Review
Perfect timing for this video as we just had the privilege of announcing Springbank as the winner of Best Distillery at the OSWAs (Online Scotch Whisky Awards) last night! Well done to the Springbank Team! And to @Aqvavitae and @user-ky9uc6wm4g for organising and the Barflies for voting!
As quite often happens with us, our opinions differ on this one! It just goes to show how different everyone's palate and taste can be and that is the beauty of whisky and whiskey! There is no denying Springbank is a very popular and quality product whether you would queue for it or not!
What's your take on Springbank? Farmy? Delicious? Or both? Any would you queue or camp out for bottle? Let us know in the comments!
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Too funny! How many things can make you think about flavour like this? Always great to see you both laughing and funny to see Jen fall into a day dream as Rachel faces horror. Damn I love whisky. Thanks for helping us out at the weekend and see you soon!
Absolutely 🤣 whisky is so unique in that way eh? Thanks for tuning in and we felt privilleged to be asked to contribute to the awards so anytime!! Hope you have a blast at Glasgow Whisky Festival (let us know what your favourite drams were?!)
Hi guys, it was good to see you both on the OSWAS yesterday!
It was great to be there!! Fantastic night 🥃
Summary: There's some charm beneath the farm.
This quote could be a t-shirt!
I've seen you girls for the first time on OSWAS last night. I really like your unconventional and honest opinion on this matter. Whisky, and especially Springbank, could be taken way too seriously this days, and that could lead to disappointments and anger for the potential fans. Just relax and enjoy for the sake of your own enjoyment!
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS! It's something to be enjoyed and not taken so seriously we totally agree! Thanks for tuning in :)
Very nice to see the differences personal preference can have. I have similar tastes to Jen, I bought a bottle of 15 YO Springbank about 5 years ago....and havent found anything I like better yet!
Definitely, we have completely opposite tastes! Let us know if you taste anything better and we'll hunt for it!
Honest impressions is what it’s all about and is much appreciated. Thank You ladies, very well done.
Thanks, glad it comes across!
Good to see you on the OSWA last night ;-)
That Floor is seeing a lot of action! 😂.. Quality Notes there ladies.. I tanned that bottle in no time… I may have a drinking problem though 😄. Great Video as per 👍🏻
Thanks again so much for the sample Eddie!!! Sorry about Rachel's reaction she's got no taste that gal 🤣 can't blame you for tanning it!
@@TheGrailTastings you’re welcome!, and those facial expressions were priceless.. That’s one less person chasing Springbank ! 😃
@@eddiecarlin3675 Thanks for sending them the sample, Eddie. Even though you almost killed Rachel with it. 😝
Nice tasting notes! Basement wall is a common note my friends and I use to describe the musty funk on some whiskies, beers, and cheeses.
Basement wall 🤣 love it!
Love Springbank’s weird funkadelic type notes. I was fortunate to pick up 3 Springbank Local A barley’s this year for the price of 115$ a piece. It’s been the best whiskey find I’ve ever had so no matter what I’ll always love Springbank.
Funkadelic is a fantastic word love it!! Enjoy the Springbanks and thanks for tuning in😁!
A pair of nutters what a great watch
That's why we love them!
Even without the whisky we are nutters tbh 🤣
Yep! That’s why my surfing stopped on a dime, but their content and insights were spot on so I subscribed. I’m looking forward to bingeing on this channel when I have more time to truly enjoy the deep dive.
Slainte!
The thing with Springbank, is that while i found it a whisky with unique character, its position and rarity these days makes people not taste this whisky objectively. So often it has become a trophy bottle rather than an actual meaningful pursuit for the seasoned whisky drinker. Rachel if youre put off by the farm note of Springbank perhaps Hazelburn might be more your wheel house, the HZ10 is fabulous stuff.
Totally agree - it is an awesome dram if that farmy funk is what you're after but the pressure to like it when everyone else is raving about it is real! Rachel's tried a few Hazelburns but not the 10 yet! Shall get on it thanks for the suggestion 😁
Hazelburn 10 is now the hardest to find from the cheap core range.
Rachel's facial expression alone says it all... Springbank has such a wide variety in their batches and I probably always get the "bad" ones. Springbank and Ardbeg are and will remain my tasteful end bosses.
Thats a great way to put it, tasteful end bosses 🤣 You and Rachel have similar taste sounds like!
"Tasteful end bosses" LOL But it's one of those end bosses where the game's difficulty level was a 3 and the end boss' is an 11.
@@bdwilcox 🤣🤣
Nice informal video ladies. In my opinion there are many wonderful whiskies out there but nothing can compare to Springbank. It has a taste all its own. I wish I owned a cask of it ! Regards, JZ
It does have a cult following for a reason!
If I could only drink one whisky for the rest of my days Springbank 10 might be the one but it’s weird it’s one I would never argue anyone was wrong for not thinking it was that great.
Nice to see you both involved with the OSWAs 😊
That's a great appraisal of SB10!!
The OSWAs was fantastic, thanks for tuning in 😀
I can enjoy drying and tanic, but I would hope to try a dram before bringing a bottle. Thanks for sharing!
You may have been thinking of Mortlach's 2.81 (I think) times distilled.
Nicole and I tend to love oloroso casks and finishes if done well, but we notice some can get bitter quickly if they cool below 22C.
Another great review, keep up the good work!
I think you're right! I think we've mixed up our distilling decimals!!
I just subscribed to your channel… Greetings from the US. I can listen to you guys talk for days. Coincidentally I picked up three bottles of this blindly today because I know how hard it is to get a hold of this brand. It seems like the ratings for the 10 year are better in some cases then for the older age bottles. I’m enjoying and looking forward to seeing more reviews.
Thank for the subscribe! Well done on managing to get hold of 3! Hope you enjoy! 🥃
I'm new to your channel after seeing y'all presenting on the OSWAs. I'm loving the reviews and your jocularity. Also, my family and I are visiting the UK next summer, so watching you, @Ralfy, and @Aquavitae is tuning my ear to accents and colloquialisms.
Colloquialisms such as "hippy whisker" 😁
Hilarious and very honest appraisal of an iconic Springbank!
I have subscribed!
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The first bottle of whisky I ever bought was a Springbank 15. Love at first dram.
Wow! What a first to go with!!
I hated the first half of my bottle of SB10, way too dry, bitter and tannic. Then after around 10 months it had transformed into candied orange dipped in dark chocolate. Definitely a bottle. Which needs oxidisation. Longrow and kilkerran on the other hand are all perfect straight after corking. Not tried Hazelburn yet.
That is interesting! We've still got some of the cage bottle left Rachel was going to return to but we'll maybe give it some months first and see if there's any difference. Thanks for the tip!
You two are great! My new favourite whisky channel 😃
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Haha. I love springbank and hipster enough to be from before it was cool. I love how honest this is. Had me laughing. It's a very specific taste and it works for some palates and not others :-).
Haha glad you enjoyed Julie! You're exactly right there!
Farms, floors and school PE sessions! You are a pair of nutters that make great videos, and really enjoyed this one. Never seem to be around when a SB10 comes up for sale, and I won't pay secondary prices - then again after Rachel's expression, I may not bother! Cheers ladies 🥃🥃
If you've tried any Springbanks before and liked them or indeed anything with a bit of a funky flavour it's worth a shot but agree with secondary pricing! Thanks for tuning in, we are nutters even without whisky 🤣
Well done that you give an honest opinion about Springbank. All praise should be given to them for their no compromise true integrity ideology and they are without doubt the gold standard when it comes to what a distillery should be. However, their house style is not to everyone's taste, being a bit odd to say the least with quite a few which many would describe as "off-notes".
This is only my personal opinion but many today have turned things which they emotionally identify with, into pseudo religions or cults where their object of worship can do no wrong. Anyone who disagrees must be "put to death" or at the very least, "cancelled". Whether it's football teams, film stars, personalities and social influencers, or yes, even Whisky distilleries.
There's a reason we all call it "the Springbank funk" ... Jen's spot-on. There is something characteristic and unmistakable but it's so hard to put into language. But once you know it you'll never mistake anything else for it.
Absolutely!
Ha-ha...07:49 Fantastic face from Rachel! That is NOT what people think of Springbank! 🙂 Liked your comment about the smell of Springbank, Jen "smelled like whisky from when I was wee" - great comment (very descriptive 🙂). Great reviews, you two! Remember to lick the wooden floors - to taste the differences 🙂
Aye she'll really not enjoying that cage bottle there 🤣 thanks for tuning in as always 😀 and we'll post any floor licking on our shorts 🤣
@@TheGrailTastings Ha-ha - looking forward to that, Jen!
I found Springbank 10 hidden away on a shelf in a store in Chicago. There were four bottles, I took two, my friend took 1 and we left one for someone else to find in a happy accident. I wouldn't camp out for it, though. It was $99 a bottle.
Teeshirt with Hippy Whisker, please. 😂
@@Robert.Sheard incoming 🤣🤣 was that the first time you'd tried SB 10? What did you reckon to it?
@@TheGrailTastings I was on a trip to Chicago in September and had SB 15 in a non-Islay peated flight at a restaurant. But the 10 is the only one I've ever found in a store. (In that same flight I also fell in love with Longrow Peated.)
Fully agree about not camping for a whisky... or anything else, but otoh seems appropriate that it's for one from Campbeltown.😉
Glad to hear you wouldn't queue for it. I mean, seriously, queueing for whisky. How sad is that? I understand what people mean by 'funk' but it's a lazy term and it should be better defined. What other whisky region gets away with such a lazy descriptor (apart from Islay - guess what?). Speyside 'Green'; Island 'Coastal'? Funk, it's not good enough really but I kind of know what it is. Part distillate, part bourbon cask, part sherry cask and a bit of peat.
By the way, it's not obligatory to be a fanboy of Springbank. We all have our personal preferences and that was the case a few years ago. Some liked sherry whisky and some liked peat. Others liked Speyside and so on. These days it's become sacrilege to express doubt about Campbelltown and Springbank in particular. It's perfectly acceptable to like other whisky more than them. WT
"Part distillate, part bourbon cask, part sherry cask and a bit of peat" is a bit longer to say than "Funk" though! 😂
I've never tried any springbank. I hadn't heard of it till the 2022 oswas. I can't get my hands on any. How often do shops get bottles in?
We only get a few bottles now, 3 or 4 times a year. Its worth trying but since its not everyone's cup of tea it might be worth trying to get a dram in a good whisky bar before going to the effort for a bottle. Good luck though!
I do on occasion get that struck-match sulfur note on Springbank. Sometimes it works, sometimes it works against it. I had a Springbank 12 CS from 2019 that I didn't get on with due to it. I love Springbank but also would not queue up for it. Wouldn't queue up in general.
Yeah we wouldn't queue up either! That's interesting you've had a bottle that was too much of the sulfury notes, thats a good descriptor for it!
@@TheGrailTastings I first encountered the note on a bottle of Glen Garioch 12 and referred to it after that as the "farty egg bottle." A whisky friend of mine suggested it's likely more struck-match sulfur than rotten egg sulfur so I went with that. Sounds better than referring to it as egg farts 🤣
Ahhh man I hope to try springbank 10 one day. Impossible to find here in jersey.
We feel your pain, we just got our allocation today and only got 2 bottles🙃🙃!! Hope you get to try some soon!
The Cold wall 😂
Someone needs to make Rachel a Hippie Whisker t-shirt
So many things to comment on in this video...
'Florentine' being from Spain or France... and they say we Americans don't know geography. I was thinking Outer Mongolia, myself.
The SMWS naming reference. So fitting. 🤣
The tasting notes. Whiskey is the only food/beverage where the tasting notes can be the most disgusting thing imaginable but made OK by ending it with "but not in a bad way." Examples: it reminds me of bloated rhino carcass that's exploded in the sun...but not in a bad way. " "It reminds me of a pig farm's manure pit where you need to wear a gas mask...but not in a bad way." "It reminds me of my cat's throw up on a cold morning after I accidentally stepped in it with my bare feet...but not in a bad way."
Springbank has gotten so over-hyped and over-priced but at least it's honest whiskey. Can't say that much for its over-hyped big uncle, Macallan. Springbank 15 here in the US now costs a kidney and a first born son.
Camping out for a bottle? Or even camping out for anything? Ridiculous. I did that with friends when we were younger for Boston tickets and, though I like Boston, even back then I was like, "Why are we doing this? This is just dumb."
I got an advanced copy of Nine Inch Nail's first album Pretty Hate Machine and would listen to it non-stop. My brother's friends would all make fun of me saying it was freak-music and I was weird. Then, a year later, they all had NIN stickers on their car windows. I was like, :You hypocrites! I liked them before they were cool."
Speaking of liking something and someone before it's cool, I'm a rum aficionado and my hero is Richard Seale, the master distiller and master blender at the FourSquare distillery in Barbados. I'm sure in five years, when rum is 'the next big thing', everyone will be tossing his name around like they knew him the whole time. And here I am with a Richard Seale sticker on my car window way before he was cool, ya' hypocrites.
Oh, and Rachel's facial expressions throughout the whole episode... 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Oh, and what is a cage bottle? I never heard the expression. Is it a special bottle whose blend is so wild and crazy they need to lock it in a cage for public safety? I'm just envisioning a bottle label with the Tasmanian Devil being soothed by Bug's Bunny's violin.
Oh, and I should have edited my original post to include these other comments but at this point its ridiculous enough to keep going with it.
Rachels geography is usually the shocking one 🤣🤣 totallt agree with the price of Springbank, we think theres a lot of collectors who artificially increase the price just by flipping it so quickly (ANGRY FACE!!)
Definitely agree with tasting notes 🤣 it's the only food/drink we'd go 'Ohhhh' if someone said it tastes like a burnt shoe 🤣
Also agree RE Macallan (over priced designer whisky in our opinion!)
OMG you saw it here first folks!!! Foursquare we already find is selling like hot cakes, you will be the ultimate rum hipster 🤣
The cage bottles are basically just distillery exclusive bottles they keep in a wee cage type room at the distillery, so always small batch and cask strength and usually something a bit unique!
Always a joy to hear your thoughts - have you tried Spingbank at all? What do you reckon to it?
@@TheGrailTastings Springbank is the blue-cheese of the whisky world. It could best be described as divisive, challenging and an acquired taste. Those that love it, LOVE it and wink at each other with that gentle nod of acknowledgement and those that hate it, LOATHE it. I fall into limbo in that I like it well enough but it's not really my palate. Billy Walker is my shaman and GlenAllachie is my elixir if that gives you any idea of where my palate lies so, while Springbank isn't bad, it's just not for me. I'm also a Glencadam kind of guy so I tend toward the sweet and fruity so Springbank's funk is off-putting (much like Wild Turkey's wet-dog funk). They're both very good whiskeys, just too challenging for a whiskey wimp like me.
SPRINGBANK 15 YEARS SINGLE MALT 70CL cost 169 GBP over here. Never tried it yet 😉
Obviously everything is worth different amounts to different people but we certainly wouldnt pay that for it - no wonder you've not tried!
750ml here in the US is 220 GBP. For that price, it should come with... oh, nevermind. Trying to keep this family friendly. LOL
@@bdwilcox Wow, that's crazy gouge pricing. I recently picked up bottles of Springbank 15 for $140US and Springbank 18 for $190 at my local Total Wine. I think those are totally reasonable prices.
@@bdwilcox That's even worse, but I'm curious now have to start saving some money
@@moelassus If you think that's bad, Springbank 21 is $2500. Not on your life would I ever pay that for something I'm just going to drink. Anyone who would has more money than common sense.
It's amazing how our senses are able to filter out data coming in whilst converting it into what we would call information.
Let us consider the fundamental difference between seeing, hearing and smelling: A person can see an incredible amount of material all at once, but may only hear and comprehend one sound (or a combination of sounds) at a time. The nose on the other hand, has the amazing ability to completely filter out what it considers common smells and bring you only those which are weird or exotic. Hence people who travel to different environments encounter new smells which the locals cannot pick up. Farmyard smells, plastic and burnt oil smells are three excellent examples.
In Shemos (Exodus) 20:15 the Torah informs us that "...And all the Jewish people *saw* the *sounds* and the flames, the sound of the Shofar and the mountain smoking; and the people saw and shuddered in fear and confusion and stood at a distance."
Here we see a description on how the Jewish people at Mount Sinai experienced all the human senses acting like eyesight. In other words, we "saw" sounds and smells without any filter.
Amazing!
I like the 10 yrs. Even better than the 12 or 15 . Not so much sherry influence I think.
You can definitely taste the spirit more!
@@TheGrailTastings the balance is just right between spirit and casks.
When you suggest a ‘farmy ’ smell and taste is there a different word which might be used? Judging by Rachel’s facial expression it is something horrid! Amazing to see such an honest response to Springbank.
Hmmmm so farmy like hay and a bit of a savoury funky smell, like being in a barnyard?! Definitely musky and usually a wee bit of smoke at least. Trying to find words that aren't farm related to explain 🤣
Aye Rachel's basic she can't be doing with farmy drams but Jen loves them!
I think they're trying to say 'hot manure' without saying 'hot manure'. LOL
'Hot manure'...but not in a bad way. That's how whiskey geeks will frame it.
They should bring in a rule that anyone buying Springy in the shops should have to have a dram in the shop from the bottle they just got, then you know the rotten swines couldn't send it to Scotch Whisky Auctions as dirty scalpers
Great idea! We have had people open them in front of us! Always good to know its going to be drunk and enjoyed!
I personally find sherried whisky boring and cloying unless there's oodles of peat or some obnoxiously loud spirit flailing around in there(Edradour is a good example of this). Neither of us have to apologise for not liking something after we've clearly given it a chance, it's just how it is. On the bright side, there's so little Springbank around you won't get offered a dram of it very often and have to explain why you don't like it. Imagine how often I've had to convince stubborn whisky people "no no, I have tried dozens and dozens of sherried whiskies, I really just don't like them".
Have you tried GlenAllachie 12? I find it to be the most complex sherried whiskey I've had in a while. There's no smoke or peat but the notes it does contain are hard to miss. I use it with non-whiskey drinkers to show them the various palates because even people who don't like whiskey are surprised to find their mouth is filled with cocoa three seconds after swallowing their sip. In a nice twist, I also find their very affordable 12 to be more complex than their 15 and other GlenAllachie expressions (though they're all delicious).
More than fair, we think there's a good chunk of the whisky community who are really out off by heavily sherried whiskies but also some who exclusively drink sherry matured drams. Always good to try something out of your usual we think, thanks for tuning in :) and agree with @bdwilcox definitely worth giving Glenallachie 12 a try!
Yes, I've tried Glenallachie 12, didn't get on with. I'm going to give them another go once they start tapping into the spirit that was made under Billy Walker in a couple years. I reckon it will be quite a stark contrast with the stock they inherited from the previous owners. Anyway, I say Rachel's allowed to not get on with Springbank without having to apologise for it!
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If you're cool, you don't queue.
Then I am VERY cool!😎
You should not be smoking Weed before recording 😀 Or, is this how you are all the time?
😂 Unfortunately, or fortunately, this is what we are like all the time!
@@TheGrailTastings Watched a few more videos since it has been raining non-stop here. Cannot stop laughing. Cheers!
Cold, grey brick that been partly chipped away and partly painted white? You've spent some time in prison have you?
It does sound like it when you put it like that!