Springbank Made A Blended Malt! Campbeltown Loch Blended Malt Scotch Whisky Review 

Tasting it now and comparing it to Talisker Distiller's Edition. While both are slightly peated and around 92 proof, Loch wins on overall complexity, nose, arrival, development, and finish for sure, . ANd it's much cheaper than Talisker. I'm going to grab another bottle tomorrrow.

Just bought this recently and it is a fantastic blend for the money.

Great notes! This bottle is top of my list to grab when I go across the boarder later this year. Cheers, Matt!

I bought two bottle of this today as I got them in a deal with a bottle of Springbank 15. They’re currently sitting in the back of the car as my wife will go mental if I come in with three new bottles! Ha.

I got this bottle, really enjoying it. I got this for 85 US with shipping. I normally have to order my scotches. Gave this a 4.8/5. Nose: oily, bring, smoked tar, Vanilla, dark chocolate orange. Almond cookie, apricot Taste: honey, malt, sea salt, black pepper, Carmel toffee, oak spice, melon, Finish: ginger, nutmeg, oak cakes, smokey oak. Unsweetened vanilla.

I find it's one of those perfect bottles to fill out orders to amortize shipping costs to from the UK as well. Need a sixth bottle for your order? It's great value for what it delivers.

I will get my first Campeltown today. It's a Kilkerran 12. Got a whisky mule from Alberta...

Very interesting! I really want to try this. There is a blended scotch called Trademark X from James Eadie which supposedly contains some Campbeltown malt. I did try a sample and thought it was great value, it even reminded me a bit of Kilkerran 12... Thanks for the review!

PS - really enjoyed your debrief on recent Scottish trip, amazed you manged to get all that incredible haul back to BC intact!

I will be doing a head to head of the light (old)verses dark(newer) Cheers 🥃

Nice review. The June 2023 batch just dropped locally (it's really dark!), $61 usd. I need to grab 1. My special blend ingredient would have to be Kilkerran 8 CS 57.1% 😂😂😂 By the way... Jeremy (SSC) really is your cousin right!? 😂

Took one sip of this, 3 months ago, and immediately bought another bottle (prob batch #3). I paid £38 in UK, but prices are already rising. Have seen it close to £50 on some sites.

Been through 3 different releases of this. At $35-$40usd less than Springbank 10 (especially with how much it cost these days) its a value if you like Campbeltown. Cheers

great review Matt.....great job fella...keep em coming

Great video Matt and I bet you had fun blending your Campbeltown Loch :) The thing with blends is that they need some time for the flavours to integrate with each other so maybe if you do a 10ml bottle and try it a month later, it might be better than the OG Campbeltown Loch. That's an interesting question you asked as well so off the top of my head, I will let Hazelburn go and either add Local Barley or Glen Scotia 14 Tawny Port. Cheers my friend 🥃

Great take on the Campeltown Loch blended malt Matt. Being a blend you would expect a bigger production and a larger distribution but therein lies the problem with everything Campbeltown. They are just hard to find. Maybe one of the compass box offerings with a light peat would be a close comparison?

Interesting question, Matt....I have to work on that question of "BYO CL", though I did do some trials a few years ago with at least 3 of those, but not with all those five but indeed some limited releases, so yeah I'll probably withdraw the peated GS for an unpeated version & use several ages of Springbank/H/L, so not 5 cask types/styles only, to name a few tricks.....I still have a bit of that blended scotch early version, like I think I've mentioned to you before...I alas haven't been able to predict shortage of the 21 yo version of the Campbeltown Loch (blended scotch) that I tried a couple of times in the past, otherwise I'd bought a case lol, it was very good....I tried that current nas release last year (so probably same batch as yours or close) & liked it, but it is different of course from the previous blended scotch...which was way less peated & less funky (more grain driven, but beautiful grain). Good to see you did your own, but I doubt that the proportions are equal, and that they used a 15 yo GS, but I might be wrong...but, go ahead, because, "blending is learning" in my experience ! Slainte !

Interesting to know the % of each single malt in the blend? 35 pounds sounds like a bargain, but I have seen mixed reviews.

I’ll definitely take your version over the Campbeltown Loch 😂. Much older whiskey in yours. Great idea to make your own blend but they’re so hard to replace. 😬

These are $80 in Az at the big box liquor store….is worth it at that price? Given other age statements around that same price….