Rosebank 1990 SMWS 25.38

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Rosebank
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Age	15년
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ABV	58.0%
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Country	Scotland
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Flavor Profile

Floral

Vanilla

Sweet

Fruity

Citrus

Spicy

Honey

Oaky

Creamy

Herbal

Nutty

Dried Fruit

Chocolate

Smoky

Maritime

Peaty

Tasting Notes

Colour

straw

air Nose

raw barley and freshly squeezed lemon juice. You could also add fresh churned butter muddled with chopped chives and parsley. Pure, austere and rather ‘extremely’ lowland in style. As so often with Rosebank, I’m actually starting to be reminded of Daftmill. There’s also chalk, fragrant bath salts, meadow flowers laden with pollen and many shades of sandalwood and various fabrics. I find it pretty superb and very specific in style. With water: doubles down on plain, crisp cereals, lemon peel, butter, grass, hints of ointments, freshly chopped herbs and vitamin tablets in soda water

restaurant Palate

citrus, chalk and petrol. Purity, precision and power. There’s also baking soda, crushed aspirin, sunflower seeds and mineral oil. Also wee things like oily sheep wool, struck flints, even saltiness. Treads that perfect line between charisma and austerity that really seems to be idiosyncratic to many lowlanders. I also haven’t mentioned this kind of massive grassiness that pervades everything, but there, I’ve said it now. With water: becomes beautifully fat and mustardy now. There’s a shred of waxiness too, you could almost think of a lighter version of Banff. Some dried banana chips, heather beer, salty pasta water and many wee tertiary complexities. Impressive stuff!

timer Finish

long, dry, austere, chiselled and showing a rather brittle minerality with touches of white flowers, petrol and sandalwood

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