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Incremental Bidding Explained
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Bottle Details
Rosebank 1938 Robert Stewart and Son
Rosebank is a much-sought after Lowland single malt. The distillery was initially selected by Diageo as their Lowland entry to the Classic Malts series when it was launched in 1988, but was eventually substituted for Glenkinchie on the belief that it provided better opportunities for tourism. Rosebank was then shut down in 1993, but has recently been acquired by Ian Macleod Distillers, who have a view to resurrecting this classic lost distillery in the near future.
To see vintages from this period is incredibly, rare, distilled in 1938 in the last year of production before the distillery's wartime hiatus. A founding member of DCL, the Rosebank remit was always for blending purposes, and distillery bottlings of its single malt were not produced until the 1980s. Fortunately, casks were also sold to third-party blenders, who on occasion felt the quality of them was sufficient that vatting them with other whiskies would be a dis-service. This was the case with Robert Stewart & Son, who bottled these 1938 vintages in the 1960s.
These were initially bottled with white foil capsules, however this bottle was resealed by Christie's auction house several years ago after the original was damaged.
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