Welcome to Whiskyland, please unpack all your opinions and pre-conceptions and leave them in a tidy puddle over by that wormhole. You’ll no doubt be tired from your life, please pull up a concept and take the weight off your humanity for a while.  

As you get to grips with Whiskyland, please enjoy this single, first fill sherry butt of 1998, 26 year old Springbank. It’s everything you might hope for from this distillery, this cask type and this age.  

Whiskyland is your land, if you are reading this it is the culture and world that you know very well. The same one that brought you here, makes you love this product and the same one that occasionally drives you wild with frustration. It can be messy, bewildering and confusing at the best of times, and that’s why we’ve developed this handy 100 chapter guide to the ups downs ins outs and aroundabouts of Whiskyland.  

Now, if you’re living comfortably, we’ll begin...