Rosebank Diageo Special Releases 2014 21 Years Old 1992

An official Rosebank single malt, aged 21 year old, from 1992 and bottled at 55.3%. Just 4530 bottles were filled. Built in 1840 in Camelon near Falkirk, in the Lowlands, Rosebank was closed in 1993. Triple distillation and worm tub condensers, a pairing unique to Rosebank, gave the malt its elegant yet weighty style.

Triple distilled through three pot stills and condensed in wooden worm tubs, the make took the Rosebank style. An ex-Bourbon barrel shaped it, gentle American oak beneath the fruit. Around two decades the malt gains a waxy weight over its floral core. A long, gentle maturation suits the refined, ester led Rosebank character. Its final vintages of the early 1990s are among the most sought after of all Lowland malts. The malt was matured slowly in the temperate Lowland climate before bottling. Few lost distilleries are mourned, or bottled, as devotedly as Rosebank.

At a natural 55.3% it is full and expressive. The refill oak lending honey and vanilla runs under gooseberry and fresh grass. A beeswax and a tropical fruit give it real depth. The finish runs clean, grassy and soft. This is stock from a closed Lowland legend, ever scarcer.