Springbank 10 PX:
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Today we're back to our old friends at Springbank. Straight from campbelltown this 10 year old is part of a new series by springbank. Each year we're supposed to get a new sherry offering. This CS edition was aged 7 years in refilled bourbon casks and then finished for 3 years in fresh spanish oak PX casks. 10,800 bottles made. 55% abv.
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Like Lang says below, the point of this series is to showcase different styles of sherry casks and how they interact with the Springbank distillery character over time. PX was the 1st release, darkest, and spent the shortest amount of time in sherry casks. Next up is Palo Cortado and spends 4yr in sherry. Amontillado 5yr in sherry. Fino 6yrs in sherry. Manzanilla 7yrs in sherry. The PX casks were from Jose Y Miguel Martin per the distillery.
Maybe year or two to long? It was experiment so who knows? If SB would do three versions of one two and finally three years of finishing we could know which one is the best?
Excellent additional detail Travis.
@@peatbull3426 That would be an interesting comparison, different lengths of secondary maturation in the same batch of sherry casks.
It definitely has some good umami notes and I can see a delicious Andes chocolate mint for sure. There's still the cookie dough ......but it is drenched in that PX and bourbon. For me the peat is found in the pepper notes and oaky notes....it also has some nice light and not overpowering floral notes (lilies). Mike is right on brown sugar...but it almost goes into molasses in the most delicious way. along with some almond and walnut nuttiness and on top of that is a delicious marshmallow fluff note. The last thing that I get is a Praline note like I use to get on the old Abundah's. Excellent review boys!!!
My friend got a sample of this one from the disillery when it was just 8 yo. It was great and PX wasn't so overpowering.
1 year in PX was enough.
I think if they'd used a PX from an american oak butt, I think it would have worked out MUCH better. Way too much spanish oak here.
I'm hard-pressed to think of a similar or alternative whisky, and the best I can come up with might be Tamdhu Batch Strength or GlenAllechie 10 CS, but neither has Springbank's underlying peat, and something like Kilchoman Loch Gorm is super-smoky; so? 🤔
As for the $200 pricetag, despite my curiosity, that's just a stretch I'm just not comfortable with ✌️
Nice review as always gents.
I think we run the risk of missing the point with this series of releases. The whole point about the series is to showcase the influence of different Sherry cask maturations on the Springbank spirit, some are bound to be a bit more successful than others.
I don’t think PX maturation or finish is something Springbank have used that much historically.
So for me this is an interesting experiment but I terms of learning it would be that the period of the secondary PX maturation was too long and this has resulted in an end product that lacks a bit of balance and has rather dominated the distillery character.
Spot on!! Amen. 😁🥂🙋🏻♂️
It should be noted and is often overlooked, but not all PX casks as the same. These casks are exceptionally dark and the spanish oak is clearly extremely active. This is nothing like PX casks that say a Kavalan uses.
@@topshelfdustin3060 Absolutely take your point Dustin.
This is mediocre sherry liquid packed into mega hype bottle at the price of 18yo Top quality whisky!! I recommend you Dramface review lads. Hope you enjoy and congrats for have w chance to hand this one of 10.800 bottles worldwide. 😁🥂🙋🏻♂️
More like the price of a 20+yo top quality whisky ✌️
There's a difference between being a Springbank fan as I am, and a Springbank cultist as so many seem to be these days.
If you're a middle age newbie with money to burn, and you've latched onto certain UA-camrs, you might conclude Springbank is the only distillery on Earth not trying to rob & poison you.
Just my observation.
@@MrChristopherMolloy 101% agreed. Its truly not a hate from my side. I try to be fair and constructive with that criticism but is also so much frustration that most of us have no chance to try even 3cl sample to have own opinion. Im personaly not SB big fan. Its solid dram for me but nothing special. Maybe my taste prefer different pałate in whisky. According to this release its another Springbank experiment rather failed but they can afford this because everything bottled branded SB will sell quickly at every price. Slàinte 😁🥂🙋🏻♂️
@@peatbull3426 Yep, I recently watched a shelf of standard Springbank 10 sellout @ $170/bottle. Blind in the glass, can anyone honestly say it's categorically better made or more enjoyable than say $50 Craigellachie 13 or perhaps even $35 Loch Lomond 12? Maybe, but I doubt it.
@@MrChristopherMolloy not at all! You're spot on. Its 100% same category and same level. Maybe wee bit more oily. But, its one really good thing about SB Hypy. We can try and truly enjoy many fantastic "SB alternatives" and other fine drams still affordable and decent priced just because most of ppl follow this mad SB°O'cultism. 🤷♂️🥂🙋🏻♂️
@@peatbull3426 Agreed, but the thing is that Springbank does tend to have its own signature, just as Macallan has its own unique signature, so unlike say Glenmorangie or Glencadam, it's not the easiest to replace; the best you can do is find an equally good, albeit different, alternative ✌️
I wish Springbank made a 15 year only aged in Ex-Bourbon and Refill sherry. Let the spirit shine!
That's what the 18 is I suppose. They do 12 CS and 18 with generally bourbon and sherry. The 15 is their regular release, generally refill sherry, but recently clearly they've used wet casks in that mix. I just wish we could go back to 2018 and have the 18 for 200 or less and not the near 300 it is now (if not more some places).
God I love Springbank. And holy shit is it expensive these days lol
Both true. Dustin picked up the 2023 Palo and the new Hazlburn.
Great review as always gents
I just found one of these on a shelf at a local store a few minutes ago. My wife got it as my birthday gift coming up
heck yeah man. You in the Kentucky area finding it or you out of state? Crazy if there's more of this in Kentucky.
@@topshelfdustin3060 northern Kentucky. From some liquor store owners you and I know who are notorious for hoarding random bottles in their basement and then on random days bringing them out 😂
Water and time in the glass really helped this one. Subdued the sherry a bit and allowed the distillate to shine a bit more. Not my preferred Springbank and PX is probably my least favorite sherry, but certainly this is a fun one to try. Looking forward to the Top Shelf Whisky SB sherry series side by side in 5 years.😄
hopefully we're able to secure all of them, they aren't getting easier to find or cheaper.
Another bottle Santa forgot on my selfish bottle wish list lol sounds like an interesting bottling from a great distillery
Fun but not great. Don’t lose sleep 😉
bought two of these, had forgotten about em 😆. Thanks Mike and Dustin for your always awesome review. Will crack one open tonight and have a wee dram
Where on earth were you able to find two?!
i loved this springbank, had 2 measures at a bar, then bought a bottle secondary and drank it all a bit too fast. now secondary prices are going cray-cray. tempted to go for another one though so i can compare against future releases
Damn - respect to your shopping skills/relations Dustin! In Denmark this is only available to buy if you win a lottery and in that case you can still only buy one bottle.
Springbank and PX cannot be bad, but I think you make an excellent point with the overintense sherry flavor and color on whisky recently. We have experienced something similar in several bottles. (The new Bladnoch PX is a good example.) It's good and all but slightly subtler sherry you get in older bottlings really rock my world.
Sounds like the water brought out more nuance. Good to know. I don't think I had dared pour water in there😉
Interesting, but I'm not going to hunt down this bottle considering the secondary price asked for it, and even, alas, the 2022 12 yo CS I liked a lot on a show....I'm modestly happy to have caught a 2022 bottle of the 10 yo & booked a back up bottle for my 10 yo 2020 I recently opened for my video (10 yo x 5 versions). I'm curious of all they releases, though. Cheers !
If I haven't tried a version of Lagavulin, I'm interested.
I checked the color of a 2016 Deanston 10 PX finish with very similar maturations. About 3 shades lighter than the SB :)
Both been finished in 1st fill casks?
@@peatbull3426 The Deanston maturation is 8 and 2 in the PX. Does not say whether it is first fill but does say special selected cask for this one off limited edition. So, I have no idea.
@@peterwhite507 i believe both Deanston and SB used prime quality PX casks for their releases just from different suppliers thats why one is slighty lighter in colour than other. 😁🥂🙋🏻♂️
Deanston 10 PX was an absolute gem!
We don’t know how wet the casks are, which is a shame. For all the talk about coloring I see way too little discussion about theway these seasoned casks are handled.
That is DARK! Sounds so interesting and different. So the Mayans were wrong about 2012?
More likely we misread the situation. Or maybe just fun to talk about. 😂😂😂
I closed on my current house the month before and remember thinking to myself. Oh well, at least I don’t pay this mortgage off.
@@topshelfwhisky We dodged 2 big ones in the last 25 years:
Y2K
2012
Seems like a great reason to celebrate today!! CHEERS!!
the Palo Cortado 10 will be better and have more depth and not be just sweet PX.
Thanks for video. I am trying to explore Scotch alittle now after many years of bourbon. Sounds in my wheelhouse thou very few bottles. 🥃
what do you like in scotch? We tend to focus on rare and expensive for reviews, but there are some more available bottles out there we can steer you towards.
ha, sounds like a fun. still waiting for it to show up in the Indy area...who knows
keep seeing more markets get this. So it should be soon and if you're looking, it seems people are getting luck outside of the coasts.
@@topshelfdustin3060 If it lands in the Indy area then I'll have one reserved. Used to get the 21s every year but those have magically not shown up since the 2020 edition...yet the 25s have. several bottles of the 30 made it here too, but who knows.
@@DarkSalmonz same here, only we didn't get the 2020. We oddly got MORE 2019's when the 2020's came out elsewhere. So I got a backup 2019...I'm not mad. But yeah 2019 is the last 21 we had here too.
great job fellas, just a quick note i picked up that minty note in the last Spingbank 15 all sherry....
I think we may have brought that up on one of the recent super dark 15's.
in the uk , it is priced at 95 british pounds, sold out ,,, on auction 400 ;;.;
similar here... rush or pay.
Haha Guilt pleasure in this one.
Aggressive whisky can be some of my favorites.
yep, it's bad for you. it costs too much. It's not great. But it's different.
Missed it. £300 at auction. Will pass. Nice review.
Boycotting this whisky 😂
Solid review. I like that you called it a "Fun Whiskey", because that's what I'm in it for... to have enjoyment. Also the "Wow" factor. Probably the reason I also enjoy Laphroaig 10 CS.
The issue I see with this SB is the price tag, I won't see it for under $200. And having purchased the Hazelburn 15 sherry less than 6 months ago for $50 less... this SB can't be worth $50 more can it?
Wow, you asked an easy question, but you set it up to make it HARD! The hazelburn 15 is a night and day better whisky. Full stop (Sorry to Rob whisky in the 6). But that said, it's not as fun as this one. For me I think they were 20 difference in price and this is higher proof so I didn't feel the price gap was so terrible. But for 50 more....this might still be more fun as it does offer a unique experience. So I'm a fan boy of springbank. I made SURE my closest whisky friends got a bottle to my own determent (coulda been my bottles). I was a bit more stingy with the HB 15, those were for me lol. Mike got one, but otherwise :)
@@topshelfdustin3060 Sounds like it's my kind of whiskey! I just need to find one for under $200. I mean you guys gave it an 86-88 score. That's not $200 whiskey in my book. I've found lots of Fun whiskey for much less.
Still....... you got me fomo for this now!
Peak scotch tater right here.
Also, I think Garvin is Gavin from Gav’s Drams 😂 and shoutout to that guy, low key one of my favorites.
This might be the new definition
Wow，how many bottle do you got?😊
Seven of us got one
I know this series is an experimental series but this first one I did not enjoy. Everything I love about Springbank was buried with this released, including value. As a friend of mine put it, “this is the most polluted springbank I’ve ever had.” I commend Springbank for experimenting but this was a very unlike Springbank release, and I’m not real keen on them leveraging the collectibility of their whisky as justification to gouge their long time supporters either. The same holds true for the new 27 countdown collection.
I would have to know what springbank charged in the UK for this. We're just getting robbed by the importers and distributors and now even stores in the states. This reminds me of the local barely I didn't like, but that sticky PX saved it. But they clearly went too long in the casks.
@@topshelfdustin3060 About £100 in the UK on release Dustin.
@@langtoun8235 that's a big much, not terrible but a bit much. Actually makes the US price seem weirdly fair.