{"product_id":"rosebank-28-year-old-1965-signatory-vintage-single-1st-fill-sherry-cask-2498-lowland-single-malt-scotch-whisky-1993-70cl","title":"Rosebank 28 Year Old 1965 Signatory Vintage Single 1st Fill Sherry Cask #2498 Lowland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (1993) 70cl","description":"\u003ch2\u003eRosebank 28 Year Old 1965 Signatory Vintage Single 1st Fill Sherry Cask Lowland Single Malt Scotch Whisky (1993) 70cl\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eLong story short, it’s extraordinary indeed\" - Serge - Whisky Fun\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 of 180 bottles produced from a single 1st fill sherry cask. \u003cbr\u003eOne of the rarest bottles of whisky around obtainable at a reasonable price from the era of Rosebank prior to the closure. One of the darkest things we have ever seen. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is bottle number 9 of 180. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTASTING NOTES \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince so few people got to try this and NOT drink it, thankfully Serge on Whisky Fun reviewed it and also the reason it was bottled twice is due to 250 bottles being miniatures and 180 being full size bottles. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Quite bizarrely, it seems that this cask was bottled twice. Once as a batch of 250 bottles, and once as a batch of 180 bottles. I had just loved the former (WF 93), let’s try the latter. A few more or less months in wood may have changed the profile. A bit… Colour: red coffee. Nose: just immense. It’s a perfect, dry and chocolaty sherry, with plenty of pipe tobacco and tarry ropes in the background. Rancio. Long story short, it’s extraordinary indeed. \u003cbr\u003eWith water: soy sauce, yeah! Cigars, yeah! Umami, yeah! Walnut wine, check! Mouth (neat): totally amazing, somewhat in the style of some old Glenfarclas. Prunes and bitter chocolate, many herbs, Jaegermeister, bone dry liquorice… It’s totally extreme, ultra-dry, and just perfect. Wasn’t it genuine amontillado wood? With water: oh cinchona, old bitter liqueurs, artichokes, old rancio, old walnuts… A style that I cherish. Finish: long, stunningly bitter and dry. The best bitter chocolate from Spain or Italy (they both claim they make the best ones – but that’s the French, obviously. Ha!) Comments: the only thing you could say against this astounding old sherry monster is that the distillery does not feel. Which is true. \u003cspan class=\"textenormalgras\"\u003eSGP:352 - 93 points.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout Rosebank\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Lowland malt with its gentle, fruity palate, commands a dedicated following.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of Rosebank’s history – and fate – has been dictated by the canal upon whose banks it sits. It made sense to build a distillery beside the Forth \u0026amp; Clyde, the waterway which linked Scotland’s east and west coasts, and therefore its two main cities, Glasgow and Edinburgh. It made less sense to have a distillery there when the canal was closed and choked by detritus. It makes sense to have a distillery open again now that the canal has been reopened and tourists are coming to Falkirk to look at the Wheel which lifts boats between the Union and the Forth \u0026amp; Clyde – but is it too late?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are records of a family called Stark distilling on the wider site as early as 1798. In 1817, a distillery named Rosebank was operational for two years, while in 1827, the Stark family re-emerged to operate the Camelon distillery which sat on the opposite bank of the canal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1840, what had been Camelon’s maltings were converted by James Rankine into the new Rosebank. Under the Rankine family’s control, Rosebank prospered. In 1861, the Camelon distillery buildings were demolished and a new maltings supplying Rosebank was built, with the malt being barrowed over the canal to the distillery on a bridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1914, Rosebank became one of the founding members of the Lowland conglomerate Scottish Malt Distillers [SMD] in 1914 which was folded into DCL in 1925.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt ran continuously, bar a brief wartime hiatus, until 1993 when it closed. The reason was not to do with quality – the malt was highly regarded – but the unwillingness of its then owner (at the time UDV) to pay an estimated £2m cost of upgrading its effluent treatment plant. Problems over road access were another contributory factor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRosebank could conceivably have been saved had it been chosen as the Lowland member of UDV’s [later Diageo’s] Classic Malts Selection which launched in 1988. After all, an 8-year-old had been part of DCL’s ‘Ascot Malt Cellar’ six years previously when the firm attempted, somewhat lackadaisically, to enter the malt market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLegend has it that the decision to choose Glenkinchie was because Rosebank was next to a then closed, stagnant, canal and therefore not as much of a tourist destination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe distillery site was sold in 2002 to British Waterways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever in October 2017 whisky blender and bottler revealed plans to purchase the site from British Waterways, and reopen the distillery. The company also separately acquired the Rosebank trademark from Diageo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRosebank distillery is expected to be operational again by 2019 at the earliest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e53.4% ABV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e70cl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rosebank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56809304686917,"sku":"ROSEBANK1965SV2498","price":7999.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/9495\/8661\/files\/Rosebank28YearOld1965SignatoryVintageSingle1stFillSherryCask_2498LowlandSingleMaltScotchWhisky_1993_70cl1.jpg?v=1767819706","url":"https:\/\/b1yyjg-bk.myshopify.com\/products\/rosebank-28-year-old-1965-signatory-vintage-single-1st-fill-sherry-cask-2498-lowland-single-malt-scotch-whisky-1993-70cl","provider":"Whisky Situation Old","version":"1.0","type":"link"}