LOT ID: 0922-207
End Date : Nov 30 2022 09:00 PM
Springbank 1980. Bottled by Cadenhead's for their White Label Cask Strength series. Cask number 183. 70cl. 58%. No box.
A 1980 Springbank bottled by William Cadenhead as part of their infamous White Label series in the 1990s. These whiskies were notoriously massive, full on, punchy drams often at super high cask strengths. This Springbank is very much in that vein but beautifully so. Big, coastal, peaty and full on with bags of fruit, wax and sandalwood notes. You could be forgiven for thinking it had been distilled 10 years earlier. Wonderful, challenging and engaging whisky that reeks of its origins.
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FILLING LEVEL
Upper Shoulder
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Springbank is one of the giants of the Scotch whisky world, an independently-owned distillery dedicated to preserving the traditional methods of distillation. For a long time Springbank was flying the flag for Campbeltown whisky almost alone but the distillery’s fortunes have improved since the 1990s, and in 2000 Springbank expanded their operations with the purchase and subsequent reconstruction of the Glengyle distillery, home of Kilkerran.
The Springbank distillery produces three distinct single malt whiskies, with the regular lightly-peated Springbank malt complemented by the heavily-peated Longrow and the unpeated, triple-distilled Hazelburn. Of these secondary malts, Longrow has a longer history and more passionate fanbase, with the 1973/74 vintages in particular attracting eye-catching prices at auction. The standard Springbank spirit remains one of Scotland’s greatest whiskies, and auction prices for old bottles continue to rise.
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In 1842 George Duncan established a wine merchant and distillery agency business in Aberdeen. Duncan was joined in the early 1850s by his brother-in-law William Cadenhead, who took over the business after Duncan’s death in 1858, changing the company’s name to Wm. Cadenhead. When Cadenhead died in 1904 the company passed to his nephew Robert Duthie, who developed the spirits side of the business.
Duthie died suddenly in 1931, and employee Ann Oliver was put in charge of Cadenhead’s. Sadly, Oliver’s tenure ended in financial difficulty and on her retirement in 1972 the business was forced to sell its entire inventory. Cadenhead’s was acquired soon afterwards by J & A Mitchell, proprietors of Springbank distillery, who relocated the business to Campbeltown. Cadenhead’s has flourished under Mitchell’s stewardship, releasing many legendary single malt bottlings in the 1980s and 1990s and now has outlets in Edinburgh and London as well as Campbeltown.
BID | DATE | TIME | |
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£900.00 | 1st December 2022 | 02:58 | |
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