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Rosebank 1992 - 2003. 11 Year Old. Bottled by The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Society cask number 25.32. Bath Salts & Raspberry Jam. 70cl. 54.3%. 95.0 Proof. No box.
A single cask Rosebank 1992 11-year-old Lowland single malt whisky released by indie bottlers the Scotch Malt Whisky Society in 2003 with the SMWS code 25.32 and the subtitle Bath Salts and Raspberry Jam.
Like most if not all of the remarkable 1990s vintage Rosebanks released by indie bottlers in the early years of this century, this Rosebank 1992 is an absolutely stupendous whisky that demonstrates the utter absurdity of Diageo predecessor United Distillers’ decision to shutter the distillery the following year at the height of its powers. This Rosebank was finished in a port pipe before bottling, which explains the Raspberry Jam of the title (and the whisky’s extraordinary dark colour), and was an edition of just 211 bottles at a natural cask strength of 54.3%.
The writing was on the wall for Rosebank in 1988 when owners United Distillers preferred the less accomplished but much more tourist-friendly Glenkinchie for their new Classic Malts series. Rosebank closed in 1993, after UD balked at a £2m upgrade to the distillery’s effluent treatment facility, and soon became a cult lost distillery - the Lowland equivalent of Brora or Port Ellen. Miraculously, Diageo have now restored both Brora and Port Ellen, while Rosebank was rebuilt under new owners Ian MacLeod Distillers and began distilling again in June 2023.
Today, new bottlings of old Rosebank are dwindling, and prices have increased dramatically over the last decade. Essential official bottlings of Rosebank include the glorious 1979 and 1981 Rare Malt Editions, and the splendid Special Releases from 2007, 2011 and 2014. Indie Rosebanks from the early 1990s vintages are generally excellent and usually more affordable at auction.
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) began in late 1970s Edinburgh when founder Pip Hills persuaded a group of friends to chip in for a cask of Glenfarclas, and was officially formalised in 1983. Today the SMWS has members rooms in Edinbrugh, Glasgow and London and a string of international partnerships serving its 40,000 members.
The Society’s whiskies are known for their unique SMWS coding system. Each cask bottled is assigned two numbers, representing the distillery and the bottling number, so 1.45 is the forty-fifth cask bottled from the first distillery and 33.27 is the 27th cask from the 33rd distillery.
Glenmorangie bought the Society in 2004, but sold it in 2015 to a private consortium who floated the SMWS on the stock market in 2021 via their holding company Artisanal Spirits Co.
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| £525.00 | 1st April 2026 | 07:57 PM | |
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