Springbank 25 Year Old 2022:
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Happy New Year, and lets start off with our 2023 Whisky of the Year's first contender. The 2022 Springbank 25 is a blend of 40% Bourbon, 60% Sherry casks. There are 1,300 bottles of this made and it introduced a new box with a matt finish, which is a huge improvement.
Once against Cheers, Happy New years, and lets start this year right.
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Lovely stuff I’m sure
Dustin holding out on you?
@@topshelfwhisky Hardly any left of ours
Congratulations on the milestone Mike & Dustin! 👏
I can't wait for my bottle to open up! My first pour of the new SB 25 was along side the 10, 12 (2018), 15, and 18 (2021). Now take it this was my first SB 25 that I've ever had. So I'm not an expert with the 25's...lol. However, I would have to agree. This tasted like it had a nice balance between the casks and the SB spirit style. It still has a nice complex musty old cask flavor that you want from a 25yr + whisky. However it's not over the top with those cask flavors. It retains those lovely complex oily, earthy, dirty, and funky spirit flavors that we all love about SB! So I'm extremely pleased with this bottle, and can't wait to share it with my friends. Cheers to 2023 and to many more great reviews! Thank you fellas.
You all have become the experts on SB25 releases, and what a library of reviews you have. Kudos. We’re all jealous ha ha.
These are so much fun to review and enjoy. The 2016 is still my favorite but Dustin tells me otherwise.
Congrats on #400 and celebrating the start of 2023 with this beauty. Simply AMAZING!! CHEERS!
Thanks for being a big part of our 2022 DJ. We saw so much amazing growth.
Thank you! Cheers!
Well done, guys...I alas haven't tried any contemporary 25 yo OB Springbank, but can"t complain too much as I can tell i tried "the real deal" this distillery wise regarding bottlings from the late 1990s & early 2000s thanks to some great shows & also collector's friends collection they shared with me early enough in my whisky journey to get those legendary bottles...Cheers !
Older whisky is almost always better, but it is still great whisky if you can get your hands on it. I wish the abv was higher but SB25 is probably my favorite 46% er being produced today.
Thank you SO much for the sample gentlemen. The best way for me to describe it is like a super silky peated malt with wild honey
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed that!
Congrats on review number 400 guys, I’m looking forward to your 500th already, will it be a Springbank or a Lagavulin I wonder 😏
The 25s are undoubtedly good stuff but sadly I feel are at the point where they really don’t stack up in terms of value for money, same is also true for the 21 in my view.
I was thinking Highland Park 25 or 30 cask strength. 🤷🏻♂️ but we got some time.
I’ve said before, SB25 is the most I would pay for a 46% of that age.
I've only came across a 2018 and 2019 (bought them both for close to MSRP) and haven't seen a bottle since. Never found one in my state and was told by local store that they can get one, but they have to buy 15k in other product to qualify for one of the six bottles in the state...
“Bought them both” that’s my New Year’s resolution
Impressive achievement guys, congratulations! Another great review, on to #500. Cheers All!
Happy new Years to both of you. What a decent dram to begin with. My Whisky of the year 2022 was a Ledaig 21 49,6% 1997/2019 from Old Particular. It reminds me a lot like a mixture of Springbank and Port Ellen. A fantastic single cask. Cheers. Stefan
OP has turned out some stunners.
Happy new year gents
You too buddy!
Happy new year
Listening to you talking about it is the closest i will ever get to tasting this bottle. Thanks guys !
I watch reviews all the time for the same reason… Malt reviews has always been great for that.
Great Whisky for review 400. Happy New Year Guys!!
Cheers guys, can't wait for 2023 on whiskytube.
Happy new year!
Sounds delicious. Great review.
Thank you 😋
Springbank make a big noise about ridding the world of unnecessary packaging but I guess that doesn't apply to this sort of thing. Happy New Year gentlemen and let's get started the way I mean to go on. Let's hope a poxy cardboard box adds some value to a 25 year old whisky retailing at £380+. Personally, I've never gone beyond the 18. I appreciate the law of diminishing returns but in the case of Springbank it absolutely sucks. Even in the days when I could buy a bottle the price turned me off. The 46% has always been a bit of an issue as well. When we buy bottles like this I want it to be the full on experience. £400 is a hell of a lot of money to be sipping on a regulation strength dram. It ought to be 50%, the Golden Strength. I'm sure I would love this bottle but I'm at the stage where if a bottle is going to deliver a WOW factor it has to be more than 46%.
Anyway, that was a very fine review. $1,000 bucks (deep breath) for a drink? You must be well paid. WT
I do like these boxes if for no other reason they stack well, but yeah it's odd how Springbank's packaging has been the last few years. And sadly this is simply an irrational purchase and it's just stupidly priced. That said, at 400 pounds, I'd never let one of these slip through the cracks! I cry a little inside knowing how much cheaper this is over there at retail vs retail in the states.
@@topshelfdustin3060 It's only theoretically available over here. It's actually impossible. A five minute window and then it's just as expensive as you guys in auction only. At least you have the option of a purchase. Springbank's distribution completely sucks. It's spread so thin nobody is happy.
I think being in the states we see what it takes to get whisky differently. It's normal for people to hit their store daily for a month straight waiting for a bottle to show up, refreshing pages, and even making friends with the guys who drive the trucks. I know guys who stand in line every week a few hours to get whatever showed up.
Getting springbank in the UK use to require I just check a few websites every morning along with my work email. And even then I saw the Roy's of the world claiming it was getting "Pappy like".
Springbank seems from what everyone tells me over there similar to getting an ECBP over here. A bit of work but it's obtainable. It's nothing like the truly hard to get and allocated bourbons.
So I guess i'm jaded by the US bourbon world. "I didn't have to bribe someone to know what day the truck arrives to be one of 100 people in line 4 hours before the store opens? Oh so it's easy to get!"
I’ve said before this is the most I would pay for a regular released 46% whisky. The 46% bothers me to too, but not enough.
Congrats on 400! Great review as always. Need to run out and get me some papaya, as that will be easier to get than the SB 25 😆! Cheers and Happy New Year!🥃
Congrats for reaching 400 reviews, it was like yesterday that you celebrated 300, time only flies.
Springbank 25 is just an exceptional whisky but sadly prices have reached to the point that I think you can find better stuff especially if looking at independent bottling. I was lucky enough to buy two 2021 edition 800$ each and what a whisky but this year I let it go at 1100$ plus tax. Same issue is happening with 21 year old as well and at this point it’s cheaper to go to auction than paying retail here.
You're right! Though IB's are so hit and miss sometimes. That's why we often pay those premiums on the official stuff.
Sounds amazing - I was happy that at least I could get the Longrow Red 15, and yesterday was able to pick up the 2021 Longrow 18 which was my New Years Eve dram! Great stuff - gotta love Springbank - one day i will try the 25! Happy New Year and thanks for your great reviews!
Great bottles, did you open the LR15?
@@topshelfwhisky not yet - have an earlier Longrow Red Pinot still open plus several others including a couple of different Springbanks and Hazelburns - but i will soon - i got it after seeing your review last month - look forward to it!
Thanks for the review gentlemen, I saw one of these at my local shop but just didn't have the $950 and tax to spare at the moment. Try to get it next time. Cheers!
Yeah...it was not a financial wise buy for me, but it's springbank.
We love these SB25’s
Also meant to ask, have you guys tried the CB ultramarine? I’m hearing generally good things but the price is high, as usual.
I've seen it but I've passed. The last few compass box offerings have just been a bit too "creative" with their blending. Just too any things and the prices just too high.
Saw this for sale in AZ for $2500 this past November. The 21 was $1400. HARD pass on both at those prices, I might have reached for the 25 at "only" a thousand.
Brutal, the 30 was 2500 here. I thought about it....and then my brain kicked in and told me how stupid I was being.
@@topshelfdustin3060 the 30 was $3500. I can buy a lot of great whisky for that. 😳
@@richardfiske6311 brutal, that said, someone bought the 30 by me. Only lasted a week or two.
I just picked up a bottle in England for £499 ❤
@@joer9643 that's a steal!
Out of most foks price range i bet!😢
You're not wrong, these have gone from really expensive splurge to just silly.
Yeah and it’s a shame.
21👍
Springbank is a whisky I will never drink due to it being impossible to find and way too expensive.
Sad part is they used to be a fairly good deal for the quality you got. And five years ago you could find them on shelf’s too.
Those days are gone
Don't deprive yourself. The dram is stil worth it imo
surely the 10 can be obtained with some effort and a small markup is hardly enough to pass if you've yet to try it. Or worse case, at least get yourself a bar pour!
Where do you live Inwill find you a bottle
Where can I get it for a Thousand?
I grabbed this in norther kentucky. I know these were more like 900 at Total Wines in Indiana. Just gotta get out there and hunt away from the coasts. Nice channel btw, like the bikes. One of these days I need to try out a BMW bike.
@@topshelfdustin3060 Thanks for the info. BMW is known by their cars, but it is also a Motorcycle Company that goes back 100 years. I hope you'll get a chance to try one.
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I used to have a CBR 600 back in the 90's and loved it, but I totaled a Honda CR250 dirt bike when I was 20 and never felt confident again. watching our video makes me want to ride again.
@@topshelfwhisky I am one of those who rode while young and then quit and came back to riding again. It is my way of getting away from daily stress. I ride 12 months around here in the NE, only when there is no snow or ice. Cheers.
Simply the best Whisky, cannot even find one, very sad
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