Description
A 25 year old Rosebank whisky. Bottled at cask strength by Diageo under their Special Releases series. Distilled in 1981, before being bottled on 29th July 2007. A run of 4710 bottles, this is bottle number 1425.
The distillery was founded on its present site in1840 by James Rankine, and within forty years the Rankine’s were shipping their whisky around the world. Famed for producing a delicious, triple-distilled whisky, Rosebank gained a reputation for producing one of Scotland’s finest Lowland whiskies, known as ‘King of the Lowlands’.
Rosebank Distillery closed its doors in 1993 and the lay empty for three decades. Hopes of its revival faded with every passing year, in 2008 copper thieves broke in and destroyed the stills. In October 2017, Ian MacLeod Distillers Ltd purchased the site from Scottish Canals and the trademarks from Diageo with the intention of reopening the site.
After extensive restoration, production restarted at Rosebank in 2023.
Colour: Gold.
Nose:
This smells like olive oil when neat! Little lemony notes, rather various oils, olives but also linseed and quite some paraffin. Also notes of green tea and fresh mushrooms. With water (obligatory here): the oily notes remain but are complemented with rather beautiful farmy notes, wet hay, beech smoke, matchsticks.
Taste:
(Neat): quite sippable, more lemons, including zests. With water it gets much, much more complex, with superb notes of fresh marzipan, stone fruits, plum spirit, butter pears and dried figs. This is good.
Finish:
Very long, clean, on the same notes and big lemons and citrons.
