Springbank 14-year-old

Overall rating: 87.86/100
votes: 424

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Springbank
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottling serie: Bourbon Wood
Vintage: 11.2002
Bottled: 08.2017
Stated Age: 14 years old
Casktype: Fresh and Refill Bourbon Barrels
Number of bottles: 9000
Strength: 55.8 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml 750 ml
Bottle code: 17/390
Barcode: 610854002909
Added on: 17 Aug 2017 6:43 pm by GlenPiWi

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€ 202,70

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Whisky Reviews for Springbank 14-year-old

67 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 87.86 points

Goethe scored this whisky 89 points
22 Sep 2017 8:38 pm
This is again a substantial craft presentation. Very reserved at the beginning this Springbank keeps marching on in the glass. The palate is indisputable a Springbank (sweet gentle smoke, farm, cow dung, minerals). With some water you even get some tropical fruits. The higher ABV is very well covered into this Springbank layer beauty.Concerning price/performance ratio: 9/10

Nose

Light smoke and cow dung (yea...some burned matches), green apple, grass, lemon, wet hay (maybe cookie dough), salted fudge, some vanilla.

Taste

The farming smell/taste keeps on going, some smoke (very fruity), lemon (also some oranges), sweet salt and minerals.

Finish

Medium to long. Smoke, cow dung, Springbank farm.
Okto-Bull scored this whisky 85 points
05 Oct 2017 8:35 pm

Direct comparison with https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/101282/clynelish-1997-gm Both distilleries have an almost unmistakable character for me. The jumper is earthy, dirty and stormy. The Clynelish is finer, more filigree and a little more elegant. Whether the candle wax is? Wait ... I'm just smelling a candle ... Nope, for me this is not a candle wax. No idea what it is, but for me it is not wax ...
In the nose, the Clynelish shows me more his Brennereicharakter. The jumper is; at least in the nose; rather interchangeable. Clear point for the Clynelish ...
The Clynelish is very full-bodied and mouthwashing in the taste. Again, he shows his typical character. At first, the jumper is rather reserved in taste, but after a bit of time caramel and fudge get through. For me the type of oak is missing, that I like so much else. In taste, the malts are almost at eye level, for me, the Clynelish wins but again for a breath.
The finish of the Clynelish is medium long and gives me a tick to citrus-fruity with a fair amount of pale wood. When Springer comes in the finish finally what I like the malts from the distillery so. It is wild, dirty and beautiful woody. Unfortunately, he gets a bit too bitter towards the end. Here are both on the same level.
For sure, both are delicious, but somehow I expected more. Both were potential buyers for me. Good that I have ever got a sample before
ARDBERG scored this whisky 90 points
05 Oct 2017 2:21 pm
These distillates from 2000+ are really e few steps up from the 1990s. Give me more;-)))))))

Nose

first and second fill bourbon nose, thus sweetness and fruitiness (yellow fruits), which gets more refined the more the drams breathes, with peat peat peat but less smoke that reminds me a bit of Bowmore Vintages since 2000 and that’s a very good thing. Some samples (empty) of Bowmore handfills come to mind with I would love to compare head to head but can’t. Even some bandages appear.

Taste

More fruits appear on the palate and I meander between apples, pear, mirabelles, ripe peaches and a slice of mango and then peat sets in followed by some smoke. Full bodied but still with an attractive waist line;-)

Finish

The finish is looong. Peat and fruits stay with me, than the smoke goes up the chimney and the fruits linger on and on and basically refuse to leave: the fruits that stayed forever.
Drk Neknul scored this whisky 86 points
29 Sep 2017 3:12 am
A classic Springbank Bourbon bearing in the style of the earlier Wood Expressions. Good! But basically not surprising.

Nose

Vanillin and crushed storage apples. Wet hay transports classic dirty spring notes as you would expect. Springbank smoke, on the other hand, is barely perceptible in the nose, a little closed. A few drops of water you can try, but bring less opening than I had hoped and are therefore for my taste, as so often, rather unnecessary.

Taste

On the palate, the alcohol pushes powerfully, tingling on the tongue, is not so perfect and round involved, as you know that of many other jumpers, even if the subsequent mouthfeel can certainly go through as supple. Just that, perhaps a little 'overpowering' Aspect brings the Malt meanwhile clear edges, which should meet with wide acceptance among the connoisseurs, because only one zero has none, I have recently learned. Slightly vanilla smoke clothes the mouth and also gives hints of cream caramel. The undoubtedly existing fruitiness is limited to a few domestic apples and pears. A few pickled mandarins appear - with some goodwill - also to the fore. Very straightforward, honest, if not overly complex Bourbon storage that makes no secret of her age. If you appreciate the medium-long maturity in the category twelve to sixteen years, that is exactly right here. Still much strength but any (metallic) Fehltöne the youth are long gone clean matured.

Finish

Medium long, quite strong, just hot finish, which reminds the alcohol strength.
Dirk scored this whisky 86 points
16 Mar 2019 8:45 pm

Coconut, sweet and buttery on the nose. Black crusher pepper, a touch of peat and again sweetness in the taste.
Whiskylifestyle scored this whisky 89 points
18 Apr 2018 5:41 pm
A very very good Springbank. Great balance and very enjoyable. Good without water, but also nice with a few drops of water. Yup, another great Springbank release.

Nose

Lemon, peat, and a little bit of dieseloil at first. Then some vanilla. A hint of pineapple, and a thin layer of icing sugar. Sweet ripe pears as well. Later also some tropical fruits, like bananas. A bit briny too. With water: More lemon and oranges. Super, super nice!

Taste

Rather sweet and fruity at the beginning. Guave and oranges. A bit of mango too. And some sugar. a hint of caramel maybe? A nice layer of peat. Later some grapefruit which gives it just a bitter edge, but certainly not unpleasant. With water: Even sweeter and fruitier, the bitter edge is gone.

Finish

The finish is rather long. Some peat and fudge. And grapefruit too.
peatbogger scored this whisky 90 points
20 Jan 2018 1:16 am
The presentation is not 90... but I wount let a standard bottle design drag down the superb contents.
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Maurice_casqueteer scored this whisky 86 points
30 Dec 2017 8:53 pm
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wisekycourse scored this whisky 87 points
22 Dec 2017 4:46 pm
malt, a little iodine, strong spices, a grassy side, some fruit on the tangerine cooked and cold, and back smoke.

Nose

87 87

malt, sweetness on the palate, multiple scents with wood, fruity herbs, a little dust, honey and ashes.

Taste

88 88

Finish

88 88
wisekycourse scored this whisky 87 points
25 Nov 2017 5:39 pm

On the nose, oaky and light maritime flavor, a little iodine, a little meaty!
On the palate, iodine, salt, pepper, wood, then multi-zone fruits, peach, lemon, parched oranges, a little smoke then comes as well as a return of spices on nutmeg and the nut.
In the final, light smoke, fruity imposing and varied, sweetness in the mouth despite deg.et important length in the glass.
A playful dram, very intense, very good and diversified! A dram that has mostly a very changeable length, and very intense!

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