Product Description

Not at all what you might expect, this is a powerhouse of a malt. Big, full and extremely spicy, with a massive abv for the age and some delicious polished maltiness. A tour de force.

Product Facts

Bottler
Distillery Bottling
Series
Diageo Special Releases 2007
Age
25 Year Old
Vintage
1981
Bottling Date
2007
Country
Scotland
Region
Lowland
Chill Filtered
No
Colouring
Yes

Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old

Lowland Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distillery Bottling

70cl / 61.4%

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£2,500

£2,083.33 ex VAT

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Tasting Notes

Tasting Notes by TF
- Nose
  Waxy, sweet; plenty of forward oak, sweet orange, some butterscotch, fudge, spices (clove). Big, powerful alcoholic prickle. Rye bread, some wine-like characteristics. Floral notes eventually fight their way through, along with gingered melon. With water, becomes more biscuity and develops honey notes.
- Palate
  Big oak surge, then the alcohol - oily with immense hot pepper and spice (clove, chilli seeds). Very full and oily. As the initial alcohol burn dies away, amazing polished malt comes through to spar with the spices. Delicious.
- Finish
  Lovely unctuous malt continues to envelop the tastebuds. The length is phenomenal. The clove and cracked black peppercorns have the last word.
- Comment
  Oof! This is a monster (in a good way). The official bumf refers to this as 'ripe and mellow'. You're having a laugh, mate - ripe, perhaps; mellow, er, I think not. Clearly aged Rosebank has a different profile to the old 8yo people raved about. Hats off to whoever selected the casks for this - it emphatically gives the lie to the received wisdom that Rosebank had to be bottled young.