Springbank Local Barley is the distillery's most ambitious expression of terroir — using barley grown on local Campbeltown farms, malted at Springbank's own floor maltings, and bottled at cask strength. Each release is among the most anticipated in the Scotch whisky calendar, allocated to retailers by lottery and selling out within hours.
The locally grown barley is the concept and the point of difference. Whether terroir — the effect of specific soil, climate and grain variety on the final whisky — is genuinely detectable is a debate that Springbank Local Barley keeps alive. What is beyond debate is that the whisky is magnificent — dense, complex, maritime, with a cereal richness that may or may not derive from the Campbeltown-grown grain.
Springbank Local Barley is one of the finest and most sought-after whiskies in Scotland. The combination of local grain, the distillery's 2.5-times distillation, floor maltings, and cask-strength bottling produces a whisky of extraordinary depth and character. For Campbeltown devotees, it is the ultimate expression of the town's whisky identity. For everyone, it is simply magnificent whisky.
