Springbank 28 Year Old 1997 - The Inventors Single Malt Scotch Whisky | 700ML

This rather rare find was bottled by Whisky Business as the second instalment in The Inventors series, part of the Great Scots collection. Distilled at Springbank in 1997, this single malt matured in a single hogshead for 28 years, yielding just 88 bottles when it was opened in 2025. The label celebrates Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor of the telephone.

Springbank 28 Year Old 1997 - The Inventors Single Malt Scotch Whisky | 700ML Tasting Notes

Nose: Dried apricot, raisins, honey, beeswax, vanilla, leather, sea salt, coastal breeze, soft peat smoke, orange peel, and polished oak.

Palate: Rich malt, dried fruits, honeycomb, waxy cereal notes, caramel, dark chocolate, roasted nuts, gentle peat smoke, maritime saltiness, oak spice, and leather with a complex, oily texture.

Finish: Exceptionally long and evolving, with lingering dried fruit, honey, wax, coastal smoke, oak, spice, leather, and mineral notes.

Distillery Information

The Springbank distillery produces three uniquely different Scotch single malts: Longrow, Hazelburn and Springbank. The difference is achieved by using Springbank's three stills in different combinations as well as adjusting the peat levels. Longrow is the most traditional of the three; well-peated and distilled twice. Hazelburn is bereft of peat and enjoys a triple distillation and Springbank is lightly peated and, rather curiously, distilled two-and-a-half times. Both Hazelburn and Longrow have been revived recently after a few years of silence and both are named for ancient distilleries adjacent to the site. The buildings at the Springbank distillery are traditional and quite compact, though the facility boasts an onsite maltings which meets all of the malted barley requirements. The distillery sits in the centre of Campbeltown, a decidedly misunderstood Scotch whisky region. The malts from Campbeltown tend to be rather dry and a little briny, though much loved by connoisseurs. The distillery has a small capacity; just 750,000 litres annually, but nonetheless Frank McHardy, the production director, has deemed today’s Springbank market to be saturated. Accordingly, in 2008 distillation was temporarily halted, though the rest of the work continued.

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