Springbank 10 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky Review: Does It Live Up To The Hype?
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- I am finally reviewing the Springbank 10 Year Old. Springbank 10 year old is a Campbeltown Single Malt Scotch Whisky made by the Springbank Distillery and currently, one of the most popular whiskies on the market. This Single Malt Scotch Whisky is Non Chill-filtered, natural colour, bottled at 46% and matured in 60% Ex-Bourbon Casks, 40% Sherry Casks. Does Springbank 10 year old live up to the hype as one of the best bottles on the market, or does it fall flat due to high expectations? Watch this Single Malt Scotch Whisky review to find out about some of the history of Springbank distilllery and to find out if this whisky is one of the best Scotch Whisky options for you. Cheers.
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Hi Matt
I totally agree with you on springbank, and the core range whisky's from springbank, I'm lucky enough to have 2 bottles of the 10year old and a bottle of the 12year old cask strength, the 15year old and a bottle of the 18year old unopened, I have a bottle of the 10year open, and was drinking it as I watched your video, it's very hard to find it anywhere in my area, the bottle of 18year old I picked up in 2019, and haven't seen it again, I payed $250.00 for that bottle, and I'm sure I can't find it again for that price, I don't know when or if I will ever open it, but it's tempting. I can say that I had 2 bottles of the 12year old cask strength and drank one bottle, and it was fantastic, the problem with springbank now is they have gone to no boxes and only 700 ml's now, so for me I'm keeping my boxes, they come with tissue paper around the bottles, I guess you can find older bottles that have boxes, but not where I live, from New Mexico.
Frank H.
Cheers fellow !!!
Perfect way to watch a Springbank 10 Year review absolutely is to drink Springbank 10 with it! The Springbank 12 is a special bottle in it's own right. Who am I kidding, they pretty much all are. Glad you're stocked up pretty decently with the springers. It would be a tall task to find another 18 at $250. I'd savour that bottle. Yeah, there are few if any left that have a box. I have some older 10's, 15's and a 12 with a box. Cheers Frankie 🥃
Hi Matt, thanks for mentioning the "guava" note, that is the first fruit note (in a very complex nose) that I noticed in my Springbank 10 (July 2023 batch) 😂
Springbank 10 Shines, I personally think it lives up t◊ the hype. it's a beautiful tasing video
I'm with you William! It's a lovely whisky, one that lives up to the expectations in my opinion. Cheers buddy 🥃
Springbank 10 was my first bottle of my current collection. Got it due to Ralfy's score of (also) 90, which is high praise from him. Had to whoa back on drinking it as I developed a "leak" in the bottle, and before I knew it, it was down to a quarter! Might have a dram of it this weekend and get reacquainted.
Ralfy is a gem! I love his reviews. Anytime is a good time to get reacquainted with this beauty of a bottle. The Springbank 10 is everything you could want in a 10 year old Scotch. Cheers Andy 🥃
Great job on your video's. Preaching to the choir on any Springbank product. Continued success, Matt!
Thanks Bill, I appreciate you saying that! Sometimes it feels silly to review something so universally loved but it really is a wonderful bottle from a great distillery. Can't say enough about something like that! Cheers 🥃
Unfortunately the hype is matched by the quality. I’m precious with my Springbanks- I have a 10 and a 15. Looks like you fought for yours😂. Worth every ounce.
Both great bottles to have on your bar! I doubt blame you for being precious with them. This bottle is a survivor, fire tried to take it but the Springbank was too strong for it! Haha. Cheers 🥃
From Calgary Alberta...Agree on all the comments on this whiskey beauty!. I have bought 3 additional bottles for back up and fell kind of less worried now...
From Calgary Alberta too....now I know why I can't find any. :)
@javier Baroja It's a great whisky! And Calgary is one of those few spots in Canada where you stand a chance at getting a bottle. Enjoy those Springers! Cheers 🥃
@watchman999 They are like gorillas in the mist these days. They disappear into the ether.
Great informative review - and I agree - can’t overstate Springbank’s quality. Heading back to Campbeltown myself this summer - plus Islay! We are in tune!
Thanks Gary! It seems that great minds think alike! Can't wait to get to Islay, not to mention the wee toon! Cheers 🥃
Great review, Matt ! And no, never apologize for talking about genuine whisky like this one, please...especially as your passion for this distillery/expression here shines greatly & coming across as genuine as well. It is one of my 10 favorite distilleries & I'm happy for you that will be having soon the occasion to visit it (alas I still didn"t yet) & I'm sure you'll have a blast there. I had the chance to discover this distillery's products around 20 years ago & with this expression as well (that's why I did celebrate that milestone recording a special video, special for me at least, this year, with 4 different batches of the Ten, plus a surprise discontinued old "100 Proof" version of it) & it is fascinating to see so many batch variations but to embrace em all, always or almost, as a variation on a theme rather than thinking of consistency that would be equivalent to quality as often referred for so many other brands. In other words (& sure it is my opinion, not always shared), for me quintessential Springbank is the 10 yo & is batch variation embraced & glorified here...Having had the chance to also discover some legendary bottlings throughout the years personal discovery or through collectors friends, shows, etc...It is for me probably the most impressive one in terms of having a disarming ability to seduce our palate whatever (ok, or almost) recipe the distillery will come with...Ok I stop there, but I could speak about them for hours...Cheers to your review & to your future visit, enjoy it at the max ! 🥃
Thanks for the wonderful comment Greg. Glad it's one of your favourites too, I've heard great things about that old 100 proof. I'm sure you'll be visiting Campbeltown yourself sooner rather than later! The Springbank 10 really does encapsulate quite perfectly what we love about this distillery. It's really hard to reach past it! Cheers Greg 🥃
A very good take on SB10 Matt. It is unfortunate that quality producing distillery that SB is, they cannot produce enough to go around at a reasonable price. I was lucky enough to get my hands on one bottle of SB10. Your review has me now really looking forward to opening it one of these days. As for the availability and price, it is a rare find and it's a thin inventory when it does show up. It would be dream come true to stock up a couple of these beauties but it's only that a wishful thinking at the moment.
Well worth cracking open!! A bottle to savor for sure. mine is just below half in it's money zone
@@erikfleischhacker3583 Sounds tempting erik! Thanks for sharing your experience with the SB10.
Thanks Rohit! Yeah, having backups of Springbank products is a luxury not many have these days. I wish they were able to increase production without reducing quality, but that sounds alot like having your cake and eating it too. I hope you love that SB10 as much as I do when you get around to cracking it open. Cheers 🥃
I was at a Cadenhead warehouse tasting a few months ago and surprisingly I was a bit disappointed with it but you might get to taste some different whiskies.
That's disappointing to hear Sandy! Hopefully you're correct and they have changed up the casks they are pulling from by that time. Cheers 🥃
Another crackerjack vid Matt. Thank you sir! I have never been able to try anything from Springbank sadly. However I have some very fond memories of Campbeltown as a kid, as one of my grandmother's lived not far from there, in a tiny place called Southend. We used to go into Campbeltown for caps for our cap guns and fishing tackle. Some of the best fighting brown trout in the streams around there. All the rivers are a translucent brown colour from all the peat they run through, which give the fish a fantastic flavor. Ah, fond memories 😊 It would be heaven, if it wasn't for the bloody midges. How can something so small, cause so much exasperation!
My pleasure James, glad you enjoyed it! Oh man, you are tempting me to bring my fishing rod with me take my best shot at a peat flavoured Brown Trout! Those are some great memories to hold on to. As for these midges.... I've heard they're worse than mosquitoes. I hate mosquitoes. Trip Cancelled! Cheers James 🥃
Like an old friend, very familiar! Absolutely Matt, such a great way to describe it. I love this whisky and honestly I don't need to go higher than this because it gives me everything I want.
Loving the history lesson, hating the upcoming trip 😂 Dude how awesome that you're visiting Campeltown and Islay! On the bucketlist for me as well, hopefully one day 😃 Cheers Matt 🥃
Don't mean to make you too jealous man haha! I'm sure you'll be heading there yourself sooner rather than later :) The SB10 beats out so many other options, I can understand completely why you wouldn't need to move up to the 15 or 18. Just lovely stuff. Cheers 🥃
I have a 2019 bottle that I got at MSRP and I honestly don't get a huge difference from the Hazelburn 10 2020. They are both citrus lemon bombs with a hint of funk, maybe.
If we believe the hype, that the newer batches are better I'm still not convinced that it's worth double what I paid. We are deep in the range of most 15 year olds at $110-130.😂
With this impression in mind, while on vacation in 2021 I found a stash of 2017 core releases soon after I opened my bottle. At the time I never thought I would ever fork over $300 for whisky. So I only bought 1 backup bottle of Kilkerran 12 for $62. And down the street was LR NAS for $59.
6 months later, they were all on the shelf and the SB10 hype was just starting so being an age snob I bought another KK12.
One more year later, the shop changed hands and most of the bottles were still there prices at $61.99. I didn't see the SB at first so I bring a Hazelburn to the counter and the computer says $125. I point at the price tag and the girl calls the owner. $125.
LR NAS 62 ,ok
Then I find 3 SB10's all laser etched 2017, with 2 different $62 price tags. I bring them all up to the counter and the computer scan says $130. She calls the owner again as I'm laughing and I walk out with one bottle of LR NAS.
I could have been sipping on that every day for $62.
My luck has been with the 12 year for the last 4-5 batches. And my kinda crazy would allow me to spend $200 for that cask strength and not $125 for the 10 year old. I just think age and ABV do matter
Hey Jack! I can definitely taste the similar DNA between the HB10 and SB10.
That is a crazy journey with that liquor store. It's really almost comically bad with those unmarked markups! It's like they are going out of their way not to move those bottles.
Getting a 12 Year is quite a bit of luck, let alone multiple batches. The SB 12 CS is worth every bit of the extra premium, might be the best(accessible) Springbank out there. The age and ABV do really matter like you said. Cheers 🥃
100% meets the hype
It really does! What a whisky, and at only 10 years old! Stunner.
Sadly this is on full allocation everywhere. And there is always a maximum price I'm willing to pay for anything regardless of how spectacular it is. Great review. Cheers.
It's getting bleak, both on the allocation and the prices. $130 is too much I think for this bottle. It seems to trade $150+ on secondary(Ew, gross words to say) which once again, is too much. Hope you find some closer to MSRP in the near future. Cheers 🥃
Nice review. Did I miss the bottle date?
Year/ batch?
Cheers 🥃
Thanks! It was the 17.08.21 batch of Springbank 10. Loved your spin on recycled reviews. I gotta get around to leaving a comment on it. Cheers 🥃
Who's been abusing that bottle? I will forgive the lick up off spills, but the thumbnail is naughty. Cheers mate 😉 You guy's in the know get luckier than an average spending consumer in the UK, We get ballots & bollocks all else, so far I have one in stock. But I have a luck with Kilkerran😜 Heavily Peated for me. Young but Fruity.
I've enjoyed my KK Heavily Peated immensely, nothing to be underestimated that's for sure! Glad you're enjoying yours. You gotta do dirty things for dirty Springbank my friend. This is my Zombie Springbank! Nah, this is one of my bottles that got damaged when our apartment building burned down last year. Firehoses flooded the cabinet part way up the label so when I recovered 4 weeks later the label didn't survive unscathed, though the whisky was still perfect inside! Cheers 🥃
It’s good, but not mind blowing to me. And for how hard it is to get and the price these days it is off my radar
With the lack of availability I don't blame anyone for looking elsewhere. Why chase after what you can't reasonably expect to find? I have heard that it is sticking on shelves a bit more in the U.K. so perhaps that will ripple out to the rest of the world over time. Cheers Rob 🥃
So hard to get these in Quebec. I ‘’won’’ the opportunity to buy a 12 year old cask strength a year or two ago which I have still not opened, but otherwise you have to win these lotteries with demand far outstripping supply by an exponential factor. Last lottery I put 13 different products in my cart and won the opportunity to buy….zero. Gotta order from outside the province and risk going to jail sitting beside a murderer. ‘’Whatcha in for? Oh, chopping up my neighbours and eating them in a stew, you?’’
Me: Buying a bottle of Springbank and bringing it in across the provincial border’’
I'm looking forward to the day you open that 12 Year! The SB12 might be the best of the core range depending on the batch. That said I feel for you on the lottery. I've had no luck for years in the B.C. lotteries. Hopefully both of our lucks change soon and that neither of us have to become bunk-mates with Hannibal Lecter because of a Springbank. Cheers 🥃
Springbank 10 get's better every time I come back to it after having tasted other whiskies. Absoluty stands alone and on top of it's category. But what is a category? It competes and beats whiskies beyond it's price and age range. So tell me where to compare it with...
Springbank 10 seems to be in a class of it's own when it comes to 10 Year old Single Malt, even 12 Year olds too(non Cask-Strength). It's hits far above it's own weight class. Glad you're loving your SB10's Bob! Cheers 🥃
Just ordered two new bottles last night. I was strolling the web and got lucky for once. I'm good for a while now😃
Now that's excellent timing! Nicely done.
Your video got me started to look out for it once more. Thanks for motivating me. I guess SB 10 just hit the shelves here with the latest batch.
dia duit,well i like sprigbank whisky but i don`t like the the pricemy favotite whiskies are longrow red and a wee bit of hazelburn 10yo,it taste good,good stuff,oki doci good review,holy moly and slàinte
Whisky-doc, can you treat what ails the price of Springbank? Because I agree, the price is getting out of hand. I enjoyed the Longrow Tawny Port that I had recently. they are always a crowd pleaser it seems. Cheers 🥃