Springbank

Springbank distillery is  a Mecca for anyone who is interested in Scotch whisky. Springbank is an eccentric establishment whose very traditionalism goes against the grain. Some of its equipment might belong in a museum but it still works and those who lament the gradual stripping away of functions that has happened in most distilleries will find some comfort here. It only uses Scottish barley, malts it all itself, matures everything on site and bottles it there too. Nowhere else in Scotland can the whole process still be seen in one distillery.

Having three stills and its own maltings allows Springbank to experiment and as a result, it now produces three quite separate single malts. Springbank is two and a half times distilled and light to medium-peated, receiving six hours of peat smoke during kilning.

It may be stretching things to talk of a renaissance, but having Springbank, with its three separate malts, Glen Scotia, and now Glengyle with its Kilkerran single malt, does mean that Campbeltown can claim once more to be a whisky region.