SPRINGBANK 10 YEAR OLD LOCAL BARLEY 2020

I'm really the first? 400th review here. I just got a case of this. Time to review the neck. Nose - So this likely won't be the note in a week but I get cinnamon, followed by some pepper and then a really sweet malt. I dig back in and I'm getting red fruits, almost kid's fruit snack strawberry or raspberry or made up random red smelling berry (actually, that's the one). I get hints of charred oak, some smoke, some off profile and off putting sherry cask notes (think signatory sherry casks which aren't my jam). I'm not getting springbank yet. Taste - Spicy oak...like I'm thinking of balcones malt here or a bookers cinnamon profile. Charred vs a true "fresh" sherry. I get some good sherry and some bad. But god...I'm getting texas whisky here. Red hot gum? Water - remains salty and now seems to bring salty sugars and brine against still an overcoat of charred oak. OK guys I've now had a LOT to drink of this and I'm starting to forget I'm drinking a springbank local barely. And that's a good thing. Because you know what this is? It's a well crafted 10 year old sherry bomb that's wasted world class malt. And I"m starting to get some malty spice and salt and peat notes. It's more mortlach than springbank but I get it now. 1.75...this is a down right travesty and I've got 4 figures in bottles of this.

So rich and viscous! Nose: Raisins, Plums, Gingerbread, Prunes, Golden Syrup, Grapefruit, Blackberries, Date Syrup, Pineapples, Blood Oranges, Sultanas Palate: Raisins, Toffee, Grapefruit, Mangoes, Cinnamon, Walnuts, Raspberries, Luxardo Cherries, Cinnamon, Almonds, Blood Oranges, Pineapple Jelly Beans, Nutella Finish: Passion Fruit, Strawberries, Pineapple Jelly Beans, Sultanas, Dates, Apricots, Treacle, Salted Cod, Mackerels, Golden Syrup

Funky sherry on the nose. More funk and dark dried fruits on the palate. A warm finish. Pleasant.