Longrow 2000 7 Year Old Gaja Barolo Finish (70cl, 55.8%)
$450.00
This is a rather intriguing bottling from the Springbank Distillery in Campbeltown, released under the Longrow name. It’s a seven year old single malt, which was distilled in 2000 and spent five and a half years in refill bourbon casks, before being moved over to Gaja Barolo wine casks, eventually being bottled up in 2008. 12,120 bottles were produced.
ABV: 55.8%
Age: 7 Years Old
Bottling: OB
Category: Campbeltown single malt scotch whisky
Cask type Refill Bourbon / Gaja Barolo Finish
Origin: Springbank distillery
Vintage 10.2000
Bottled 01.2008
Number of bottles 12120
Tasting Note
Nose: Sweet, musty and dusty, peat smoke, polished berries, strawberry, candyfloss, smoked icing sugar, becomes tarry but remains fruity, bramble, damson, jam, elderberry cordial, smoked scallop meat, an absolutely beautiful nose.
Taste: Full bodied, oily and silky initially on the palate, red grape, peat smoke, sugary with red fruits, plum, damson, bramble, again jam-like, alcohol builds, earthy/turfy peat, tannic oak wood, cherries black and red, chewy tobacco leaf, herbal and woody, delicious.
Finish: Long, chalky peat, mouth coating, soft smoked red fruits.
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