The Springbank Burns Malt 14 Year Old TWB* Exclusive

Tasting notes: 
     Cinnabon® grease from Terminal A, treacle stains during the landing, and satin pillow cases in the hotel bedroom where I fall instantly to sleep.  In the morning I awaken to find bars of soap cut into seals.  Or otters.  I can’t tell.  They were set in tableau on the other bed, all facing the television.  I turn it on and there’s a commercial for a fruit candy in a language I don’t understand and featuring bright-colored cartoon fruits that I didn’t know were fruits.  It is only now that I start to feel unsettled because I see the soap shavings on the floor between the beds.  It’s clear that the scrimshaw sculptor spent part of the evening facing me as he carved.  Now that I’m alerted I sense his aftershave still hanging in the air, as well as the capicola sandwich he ate using pages of a phone book to wrap the drippy mess.  I’m on my feet heading to the bathroom when I see my travel shaving gel on the mirror.  It takes only a moment to see that it was used to depict the unmentionable abuse of a bison at the hands (and I do mean hands) of a farmer.  So my nighttime visitor can work in multiple media, I think to myself.  The shower cap has been unwrapped and sits in the overflowing sink like a jellyfish.  There are red and green grapes in its belly—or whatever you’d call that part of the jellyfish—and I sense that its sting would last a long, long time.  I reach into the sink anyway to pull the plug when I feel my arm drawn into sink and at that very moment I awaken in my hotel room bed at dawn, a heavy pour of Springbank 14 in the glass next to the bed. 

Our thanks to Alastair and the good people at The Whisky Barrel for the sample!  


*–The Whisky Barrel (Springbank Burns Malt 14 Year Old TheWhiskyBarrel.com Exclusive)

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