Auction Ended: Sunday 22 March, 2020
Winning Bid: £205.00
Estimate: £160 - £250
First distilled in 1973 Longrow is a double distilled, heavily peated single malt produced at Springbank Distillery and was first created as an experiment to make a peated whisky in Campbeltown, but today it has become very popular, thanks to its brazen, muscular character.
Springbank distillery is the oldest independent, family-owned distillery in Scotland. Legal distillation began in 1828. The chairman is Hedley Wright, the great, great grandson of John Mitchell, the first legal distiller of Springbank whisky.
There are a few Scottish distilleries that still malt barley but Springbank is the only distillery which malts 100% of its own barley, using the traditional floor maltings.
The whole production process: malting, milling, mashing, fermentation, distillation, maturation and bottling, happens on the one site in Campbeltown which is unique in Scotland.
The malt is peat dried for up to 48 hours to give the whisky a unique Campbeltown-style smoky character. Less than 1000 casks of Longrow are filled each year.
Presentation: 3x70cl, 46%
Vintage: 2017/18/19
