ralfy review 861 - Hazelburn 10yo @46%vol: (2021)
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One of my favorites. Here in Spain, all Hazelburns are very expensive (200-600 €) except this one, for some reason (only 60€). I felt very fortunate to be able to taste this Springbank product, and when i tasted i was very impressed. So much personality!
I tried to compare the Campbeltown whiskies i can get my hands on here (Hazelburn 10, Springbank 10, Longrow 10, Kilkerran 12, Glen Scotia Victoriana) and i just cant chose the one i like more. They are all exceptional. Specially the Spingbank ones, they are so unique.
3 months? More like 3 years! hahahahaha
Good video!! Good luck!!!
I love the Springbank/Longrow/Hazelburn/Kilkerran/Cadenheads bottles, labels and their boxes!
AND their whiskies. 😁
Hey Doc! I just saw you on a replay of the Islay tour that Roy did about 9 months ago. :) I love their marketing too!
@@whiskycentral Yeah, that was fun, thank you Shayla!
I wouldn´t even call it marketing. Packaging fits better. 😁
The content does the magic, not the posh bling bullshoot around it!
@@macallanfinerare2552 haha yeah packaging is better. I love the bottles and labels
Not me I don't like that Springbank.
I love the whisky but their boxes are quite shite in my opinion. Some kind of f-u to the whisky investors I guess who want polished wooden boxes with everything lol :D
HI Ralfy, the Hazelburn 10 was a gift from the daughter this Christmas, I am very excited that you reviewed it and looking forward to sampling it down the road. All the best from Nova Scotia.
A very nicely timed review @ralfydotcom - bought one of these 2 wks ago.
Always appreciate your learned view and (as you say) when you stop to listen to this whisky - it says "slow down to genuinely get the most"
This one's been on my shelf for nearly a year... so nice to share a dram together Ralfy! Great stuff!
Ralfy, so glad you Re-reviewed this. Your first review of this a decade ago gave me the wherewithal to try the Hazelburn, then I 'grew' into Springbank and Longrow. I can't agree more with taking it slow... I have a Springbank 17 from 2015 that I may open once a year if that. Thanks again!
Hazelburn is an amazing Whisky!
Happy Burns Night folks.
I literally just baught this because I loved Springbank 10 and now I feel even more validated because you reviewed it so positively. Thank you as always for the great reviews!
Try springbank 15 if you can mate. Brilliant distillery
Hi Ralfy. I am enjoying my bottle of Hazelburn 10 as well. It is standing shoulder to shoulder with my Springbank 10 and Kilkerran 12 in my whisky cabinet. It is a slow and enjoyable race to the bottom of the bottles, another 375 ml to go in each. It will be replaced, with no question.
I must share this with all with an open mind here..... I was blind tasting with friends, we had multiple glasses in front of us, and I found that the complimentary differences from glass to glass actually had increased many fold and the flavors were more pronounced, even different or evolving and each taste was different even from the same glass.. I will now drink my whiskeys by pouring two or three different glasses, of different whiskeys, and allow each to play upon each other, being the best experience I have found.
Thanks for the review. I love this distillery. Just haven't tried the Hazelburn or Longrow expressions yet, but they sure are on my list!
I gave Springbank as a Christmas gift, got Longrow two weeks ago and will definitely go for Hazelburn soon.
Love it! Ralf Mitchell at his best - of course! Because the label is what he always whshed for! And - how else could it be - the drink itself has the quality that goes with this kind of honest craftsmanship!
Whenever a Hazelburn pops up in my supplier-circle (online or from a local dealer) I will consider a buy!
I love how the CZcams award is on the shelf covered in dust. Good metaphor for this channel overall. Antithesis of the corporations.
I bought it a couple of months ago and I'm just trying it at the moment. I can see that is not the typical clear-looking Scotch. It reminds me of a diffuser filter on a camera or the kind they used in old black and white movies when the starlet was the main person in the frame.
On the nose, I get a big hit of ripe pears and baked apples. A bit floral, vanilla, caramel, and some oak spice. It reminds me a bit of the spot whiskeys only riper fruit. On the palate, oily with more pear, full maltiness, and some sweetness followed by a well-rounded spice and an incredible and very long warm finish.
I've been at the Scotch discovery for the last two years. Before that, I'd have a mixing bottle like Ballentine's Finest (haha - finest) and then either a Glenlivet 12 and a Glenfiddich 12 (gift from my brother). It was a bottle of Glenlivet Founder's Reserve that started me on the Scotch discovery journey. Personally, I concluded that it sucked (it was used to make rusty nails until I finished it), but it did lead me to reviews on youtube that got me interested in trying other Scotches. First, it was Horst and you (Ralfy) and the many others like Scotch Addicts, Whisky in the Six, Whisky Neighbour, Eric, Whisky Vault, and then Whisky Whistle. Thank you to all of them who put in the time to share their whisky experiences with the on-line world.
Just picked up a bottle after watching this. Had Hazel 10 a few years ago and decided to get another thanks for Ralfy
Hey Ralfy, these naughty 40%, coloured, and chill-filtered whisky-making distilleries, I HOPE they know how much the Ralfy ARMY is growing significantly and literally mostly buying whisky at 46% (or more), natural-colour, non chill-filtered, and if it allows, aged-statements...
Boy they will be disappointed so soon to know many people are converting from the "Regular consumer" to the "informed customer"....
The sooner these naughty 40% distilleries learn about this, the faster we will all be better off towards quality, not quantity. Just sharing.....
A splendid whisky. It's like the Arran 10 with a slightly more tame but maltier distilate. Beautiful.
Good review , I have this and I am gently falling in love. If only the Daleks had drunk this they would have been so much nicer
I didn't realize the hazelburn was triple distilled. I thought it was the 2.5 times distilled like everyone talks about. Always giving us little nuggets of information. Cheers Ralfy!
Thanks Ralphy, ive just gone and ordered myself a bottle. Im rather excited!
Where from please?
@MontalbanJR thanks for the reply. I’m U.K. based so none starter! Cheers.
Totally agreed. Underrated gem!
I think the fact that Springbank & Cadenhead's packaging stands out so much (often not in a hugely positive way) is because they're a Scottish company looking at packaging and labeling in a very Scottish way: meaning it needs to serve its purpose in the most cost-effective way possible and that's the end of it. I don't really have an issue with it.
. . . thats a good way of looking at it.
They will never be Compass Box or Dom Perignon with the luxury of a talented graphic design team, and I'm ok with it.
Id rather they spent zero on the packaging and kept the prices nice and the quality good.
Mine is going on 5 months and half full...if I want to get leathered...dont we all occasionally, I will pick up a naked grouse. lovely drop, great review.
For me this is a must for any Springbank distillery enthusiast. The opportunity to taste the Springbank spirit unpeated and presented simply but well done with just a Bourbon cask maturation. Think that with the first still being direct fire one of the stills also has worm tub condensers too? Cheers
Spot on , the second still / first spirit still has a worm tub condenser.
Just hype… you need to be willing to pay for massively hyped prices. There is other good whisky.
@@tomgibson9620”Just hype” is an embarrassingly dumb statement. I hate how the prices for Campbeltown whiskies have raised because of those scavengers and flippers. It’s a shame.
But the whisky from Springbank/Hazelburn/Longrow/Kilkerran and even Glen Scotia is fantastic. Springbank is a unicorn in the whisky world, and they are not responsible for the prices.
What you’re really saying is “I never had a whisky from the Springbank distillery because I don’t want to pay those prices” - and that’s perfectly fine. It’s understandable, every Scotch lover feels that way about the prices.
But you’re basically adding “And because I don’t want to spend the money for it, I decide it’s all hype. Nothing special at all”. - And that’s incredibly ignorant and dumb.
You’re acting like the fox who can’t reach the grapes, just grow up.
I bought 2 bottles of this 10 a couple months ago at $69.99 because I knew the price was going to go up again in the U.S. they are the 2019 version and have not opened it yet. the sherried 13 & 14 have just a touch of peat to them and most Hazelburn has just a whisp of peat to it even though they say it is unpeated just like Bruichladdich does but there is still a touch in it. Beautiful stuff. Elegant pretty malt
Very nice Ralfy, I'd be an hour min with that beaut! Had a wee dram of Springbank 10 last night (for Burn's Night of course!). Will definitely be purchasing a bottle of this one. Cheers mate, take care.
Nice review Ralfy... love Longrow and Hazelburn ;-). Love lowland, especially as only live a few miles from Daftmill. have hopes that Lindores Abbey are patient (have a wee firkin there), but suspect investor demands ay prompt them to an earlier release... but quite a few new lowland distilleries now in production which is great... Shame Linlithgow is now posh flats...
Aloha from Hawaii Ralfy just picked up a few bottles of hazel burn 10 enjoying them now!
Found a bottle an hour away in MA, USA. Definitely worth the trip to a very good liquor store in an old mill town. Had all the single malts locked in various large glass display cases. The chocolate finishing was very interesting and a first for this noob. The store also had a couple of Hazelburn 14 yo....
Thanks, Ralfy. It's on my wish list!
I really much enjoyed Hazelburn 13y Oloroso Casks. Looking forward to try this lighter style of Hazelburn! Ralfy, by the way you should try Speyburn 18yo official Bottling, which came out in 2018 and is still affordable and available as far as I know. Wonderful Speysider presented at reasonable 46 % vol. and un-chill-filtered.
Good shout Ralphy, 2 bottles arrived this afternoon 28/01/21 and I've got to say, IT'S A BELTER
Managed to grab a bottle of your recommended Hazelburn 10, looks great so looking forward to a dram 😉 Walt
Was struggling to find it anywhere and eventually found it from a small shop in Edinburgh. Excited to experience
Absolutely delicious recommended at whisky bar in the balmoral. Bought a bottle as soon as I could!
The current bottle of spring bank 10 i got has me smelling cal mac ferry ( diesel oil, sea spray and brewing coffie) in a good way, and tasting black current concertrate. Probably sound mad but its cool to be transported to a place in your head just from the smell of a drink. I liked the long row had a bottle for atleast a year
Great stuff. I recently had this and an Auchentoshan 21 from Berry Bros and they tasted very similar.
I was up half the night Ralfy trying to remember the Hazelburn whisky that I had tasted 6 years ago. I woke up this morning here in a snowy Canada still puzzled but luckily I keep all my own taste notes in diaries. Sure enough, I found it. The expression I had was the Hazelburn 10 Year Rundlets & Kilderkins, 50.1% ABV. Triple distilled and matured 2003-Jan. 2014. It was a memorable dram and I thought you might like to see my taste notes on this one:
Nose: A faint hint of kippers and then baked apples. Bananas hanging in a mesh copper basket from the kitchen ceiling; citrus jellies, English toffee and orange marmalade. An underlying sweet ester is brought into the mix.
Taste: Full-bodied. Interesting spruce beer accents, spicy with a Cream Soda flourish, orange zest and leather essence. A splash of bog water as well and then freshly sliced tangy ginger.
Finish: Long, slightly numbing/warming initially and then an explosion of baking spices, especially cinnamon and a late sweetish bloom. Some pleasant woody elements on the caboose.
Comments: This whisky is like a magic carpet ride or perhaps like a whirling dervish with creativity in aromatic and flavor presentation. One needs to spend time with this expression to appreciate its character and quality.
My Score: 92
. . . I remember it well.
My bottles last a long time. Bc i only take a wee dram in the weekend, not doing the work week. An. If iam busy i maybe dont have the time to a dram. But very happy to see hazelburn is back in stock! One of My favorites this an the olorosso. So i will buy 2 bottle if each this time
Thanks Ralfy
Great review, as always!
I really appreciate the confirmation that slow is the way to go. It’ll usually take me a couple of hours to finish a dram, and about three months to finish a bottle.
One question...critics who write about distilleries in Ireland can often tout the use of unmalted barley, saying that it is the reason/purpose for triple distillation. Is the use of unmalted barley considered taboo in the distillation of single malt whisky in Scotland?
So sad we don't have the Hazelburn here in Finland. I have based my entire whisky cabinet on your reviews and couldn't be happier! Thank you!
. . . glad to hear my recommendations are working for you.
Great review Ralfy thank you. I had a bottle in the cupboard and sipped along with you. Have you considered doing a review of the Annandale Man of Swords whisky? I’ve heard great things but it’s quite expensive. Think it’s classed as a lowland. Think it’s the most southern Scottish distillery.
My bottle of Springbank 15 has been on my shelf for over a year. Taking it sloooow....
the one springbank that sat around on retailers shelves all year. Unloved. 91/100 get it while u still can.
LOVE Springbank! bought my first bottle of Spring Bank 15 way back in the day when you did a seven episode series of the Springbank distillery Ralfy(Review 177 1-7), Love that series! Perhaps a new series? =)
Had the 14 oloroso and was blown away. Sooty sweetness....oh, I wish I could still get it for 60 quid. One of the best I've had.
The latest Sherrywood, the 13 Oloroso 2020 release was sublime. Love my bottle of it.
Great thanks for this review. I managed to book me one bottle here in Sweden through our state monopoly. The price is 50 pounds. A decent price I reckon.
Hi Ralfy,
Amazing review with an amzing whisky, i really like the hazelburn.. in your 860 extra’s you told us you had something peated from islay.. is this coming up next?
Very much looking forward to extra. I love your drinking culture topics
Got one bottle in the stash. cant wait to open and drink it.
Nice to hear the island is basically covid free now - I was listening to Manx Radio heading for Stranraer on Friday. The MacDonalds controversy was amusing to listen to the callers.
Great Review!!
DAMN YOU RALPHY,,, It will be harder to get this now that you tout this so highly... I will now need to buy all that I see on the shelf, lest I go back and find only an empty space on that shelf.
I couldn’t make that dram last two hours, but I often make one last over an hour.
I often do the sip sip glut thing on my reviews because I always add a little water after I’ve done my initial taste, and I just don’t tend to like it as much with the added water. I wouldn’t glue a dram without water in it.
It has taken me years to obtain a btl of this & I've held on to it in my collection for over a year, today I open it & taste it for the 1st time while rewatching this review.
1st impressions: clean, fresh & dry with lemon oil & pith. I'm sure I'll pick up more as the months go on, the blt oxidizes & I work out my preferred exact water amount.
The brother in law, a consumer that horsese spirits inta him on a session will not be offered a taste till theres only a dribble left in the btl months from now... If at all
I love Hazelburn your review is well justified IMO👍
That label shows respect. And demands it in return!
Ralfy dear, "multitudinous" thanks for using my malt mention (second time)! -And what a delight to have it introduce the Hazelburn!
I went for that Bladnoch 10 by your sugestion and I'm so much in love with it that I have to hide it from myself behind the other botles.. If I was forced to reply to that "only 5 whiskies" Challenge, it whould go on the list.. Cheers from Portugal!
I have just had today my first sip of Bladnoch 10 and I was literally blown away. I fully understand what you said about hiding it 😋. Thank you so much Ralfy for all your advice, and congrats to Bladnoch ! Greetings from France 😉
@@arnauddecock4244 I'm from Portugal and last February I went to alpe d'huez and this year we Can't go again.. Since the Bladnoch is 46,7% and so oily and complex I do and half hour preparation of it adding some dropes of water every 10 min.. It opens up an amazing array of perfume, flowers and camomile tea notes and the mouth feel increases and the finish too.. Its above excelent! Cheers!
Ralfy, petrichor is the word for the smell of your garden after the raid stops
I still have the Bladnoch 10yo. Very interesting.More complex than I would have thought. I was one of those who wrote off lowland whisky as "mild, uninteresting, bland". Bladnoch taught me otherwise (although , in truth, it was you Ralfy that did the teaching). The Hazeburn 10 yo is available at VERY reasonable prices here (NZ). I'm thinking it's because no-one knows what it is?
Bourbon lovers will enjoy Hazelburn 10 standard expression. Many of the notes translate nicely for bourbon drinkers shy of scotch.
You are the best so far !!! Just saying!!
I have not seen the Hazelburn here on the shelves of the bottle shops I visit in Australia. I love the Springbank and the Kilkerren so I am sure this would appeal to me.
I’d love to try this but don’t know where to get Springbank in Australia.
btw i love this bottle. Very high on my list. Even above lowlands. Bladnoch 10 is very similar and has little more vanilla in taste, but Hazelburn 10 is more dense and more cereal. I comoared both ( I had 3 bladnoch 10s till now and still know a shop that has them), but this Hazelburn 10 is dare to say even better. Or similar ar least.
Just found one at my local LCBO here in Ontario. Online said there was 1 in inventory in another city. So pleased and surprised to see this. If it's anywhere close to Springbank 15 this is a bargain!
. . . go for it !
@@ralfydotcom sure did
I concur, in every respect, sir. Hazelburn 13 Oloroso aint half bad either. By reacting at warp speed, I managed to get my hands on a bottle not long ago.
Hi, Ralfy! I watch your every review, and I'm always waiting for a new one. I want to buy a few bottles of Hazelburn 10 the same as you tasted and gave 91 points. Please write down the date of filling your bottle. Or at least a year of bottling. Thank you in advance!
We had the Hazelburn 10 as part of a whisky tasting in our Saigon whisky club, and finished it...sorry Ralfy ;-) Not sure if we did it or ourselves a disservice by finishing it, however it came top with a few of us, even beating out a cask strength Cragganmore 20yr. It was delicious, and will be in my personal cabinet as soon as I can find it again....for a slower experience! Definitely lemon / grapefruit!
Just wondering, That Hazelburn 10 was bought in Saigon city ?. Available Scotch whisky in Saigon ?.
I missed Saigon, the place where I grew up before escaped for freedom.
@@h.nguyen9992 Yes, Hazelburn was bought locally in Saigon. We are starting to get a reasonable selection through some quite good independent suppliers, with prices that are not much higher than the UK. Certainly still limited choice compared to UK, but we'll take what we can get. Enjoy a dram or two for Tet! Chuc Mung Nam Moi.
Just got me a bottle of hazelburn 10yo an 13 yo olorosso today, Damn it is very good stuff! Last i had the hazelburn 12 yo it was a little better
I tried to buy a bottle of daftmill from good spirits recently, it sold out before it even appeared on their website, what a racket!
And I am sitting here with a cold and a hot lemon, with staranise, clove, honey and ginger. Bummer, I was about to explore Glencadam with a miniature set.
. . . get well soon.
found a bottle of dusty hazelburn 8yo on shelf last year, took 6months to hit to neck, i should get a bottle of 10yo and make some comparing
So curious to compare this whisky side to side with Glencadam 10
Great review Ralfy thank you. Talking of integrity and information provided on the label, what are your thoughts on terroir and Mark Reynier's approach to this along with disclosure?
. . . valuable approach, but needs time and quality to be accepted more.
What's the thing aboujt the malt mension anyway ?
Excellent that you are reviewing less know whiskies. There are far too many reviewers pounding the usual suspects all the time
I got a bottle, but I couldn't get away from the sulfur taste. Should I try again?
Completely get the relation with lowland drams. Very comparable to bladnoch in many stages of taste development. A world beater
This reminds me of Hakushu, the japanese single malt
Where can we buy this in the U.K.? Cheers.
I had two bottles but glugged them all down , now I had to buy two more after seeing this but I promise to take them slow...😂
My gripe with anything out of the Springbank distillery is the price premium I have to pay in the US where I am. People complain about Macallan price premiums, but Springbank is getting there. So I pass.
I was able to buy this bottle over the weekend. All springbank stuff is getting really hard to get (even the core range). Prices are also rocketing because demand is outstripping supply.
Hi Ralfy! Springbank 10yr is one of, if not my favourite malt (recommended by yourself, thanks). As such I'm really curious to try the other Campbeltown distilleries. I'm looking at probably Glen Scotia 10yr or Kilkerran 12yr. Would you recommend one over the other (come to think of it I'm not sure you've reviewed the Glen Scotia 10yr)?? Cheers!
Kilkerran is very different to Springbank, but still great. I found to have a peppery flavour. Clynelish 14 and Benromach 100 proof are also good drams.
@@jbennison5672 Clynelish 14 is also one of my favorites, kind of neck and neck with Springbank 10.
@@calebsteingruber6906 in that case, if you can get a bottle of Benromach 100 proof then do it! It's discontinued now, but should be some still available.
I have two bottles of this and could not agree more with you. I will admit a dram never lasts me 2 hours, 45 min yes, but I can’t say I have ever allowed one to sit near me for 2 hours. You have extreme patience. It would be like torture waiting for the next taste. You said they have smaller stills than most. Does that drive the lack of product or is that by design? I have never had a bad bottle of Springbank but they are very hard to come by in Canada.
Some reading, watch a movie ,..will help strech the quality scotch enjoy time 😉
Would be nice to have a shared google spreadsheet with all the ratings. Thanks for your content!
There is a site that has them all listed. Do a Google search for ralfy whisky scores.
@@jbennison5672 thank you
91? I'm guessing before I've seen the malt mark.
I'm tempted by this one as I love the Springbank 10, but I just got myself a bottle of Kilkerran 12 and I'm somewhat worried they're too close to one another. Anyone owns these two ?
I’ve got all 3 and I would recommend anybody get and open each and all, I’ve really enjoyed comparing and contrasting- I’ve yet to add a Longrow into the mix
Happy Robert Burns Night, malt mates!!
Slainte Mhath🔥🥃
Ralfy have you tried bimber? Its a newer distillery in London, i find the whisky very very good, an they do the Thing the old way! I bought their olorosso cask yesterday. A little dram lasted me 3 hours while listen to an old vinyl
. . . yes, good stuff.
@@ralfydotcom yes really good, cant wait to see a 10yo from them. In a few years
Ralfy and malt aficionados, has anyone had experience with Hazelburn 13yo oloroso cask @50% abv?
Well done Ralfy ..Quality whisky and a quality review ..Thanks !...
Ralfy , what is your opinion please of the current trend for 3 year old whiskies , some appear to be really pretty good Bimber and Cotswold founders reserve , while others ( quite a lot ) by other English and Scots distillers ) appear to be a complete rip off for the money 60/70pounds plus for young whiskies which are to my taste often artificially over sherried ,my knowledge is not good enough to opinion further , but hoping you can give us an honest Ralfy view of some of these at some stage , I'm suspecting that all bar a few might be jumping on a bandwagon and charging way too much for less than spectacular products and expertise ?....would appreciate your thoughts on the best/worst of this new bread of young whiskies
. . . IF the quality is there, they should be happy to promote young age statements, which is all part of disclosure.
Now it will be even harder to get😰
Is it smooth?
Can’t find anywhere online to purchase a bottle of this in the U.K.
I bought last 2 bottles at noon from a shop in Edinburgh today online. Wasn’t in stock anywhere else. Good luck mate