Well, everyone knows you don’t buy Springbank, Longrow, Hazelburn, Kilkerran or Cadenhead’s because the bottles look so great or fancy. Not sure if the old designer is still around, but as far as the labels can tell, I would expect he still is and taking care of hand drawn labels. I guess he must be well in his eighties by now.
Personally I like it like that. It really gives an authentic, retro look to the ‘less fancy’ bottles of the ‘Mitchell family’. Recently they have announced a similar, ‘weird’ marketing strategy, which I applaud, because the real whisky enthusiast, who drinks what he buys will not give a flying f*** about it, but investors or gift buyers might think differently about it. From now on all core range products from the Springbank and Glengyle distilleries will have no packaging anymore and will appear naked on the shelfs (full article).
The first one we can present to you is Kilkerran Heavily Peated batch 5.
Enjoy while you can. It is rather hard to get decent stock of Springbank/Glengyle products at the moment.