Rosebank 22 Years Old 1991 Cask #271 (Mackillop’s Choice)

Bottled by Mackillop's Choice, this Rosebank, aged 22 year old, from 1991, drawn from cask 271 and bottled at 55.2%. Built in 1840 in Camelon near Falkirk, in the Lowlands, Rosebank was closed in 1993. The 108 foot chimney stood over Falkirk through the long silent years.

Triple distilled through three pot stills and condensed in wooden worm tubs, the make took the Rosebank style. An Oloroso sherry cask wrapped the delicate spirit in dried fruit and a nutty depth. At this age it is deep and elegant, beeswax and tropical fruit folded into the florals. A long, gentle maturation suits the refined, ester led Rosebank character. Few lost distilleries are mourned, or bottled, as devotedly as Rosebank. Laid down before 1993, this is spirit from a distillery silent for three decades. History on the site runs back to the Stark brothers in 1798, before Rankine's 1840 distillery.

At 55.2%, undiluted, it is deep and floral. The Oloroso brings dried fruit, fig and a nutty depth, and the refill oak lending honey and vanilla runs under citrus and a grassy freshness. It is refined and deep, the florals woven in. The finish runs clean, grassy and soft. This is stock from a closed Lowland legend, ever scarcer.