Product description
Old Rhosdhu (sometimes offered as Rhosdhu) is one of eight single malts distilled at the Loch Lomond Distillery until around the end of the last century.
Loch Lomond is the only distillery in Scotland to produce malt (approx. 5 million litres per year) and grain (approx. 18 million litres per year) in the same building; it also produces blended whisky, vodka and gin. The facility is equipped with one pair of traditional stills, two pairs of Lomond stills and a pair of continuous columns. The official editions of Old Rhosdhu single malt can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and all contain whiskies from the last century. The one presented here is one of the first batches of this whisky, distilled in 1967 in a Lomond still and bottled in August 1999.
Nose: old leather couch, dusty antique bookstore, beeswax, stewed apples and pears, mango, papaya, lemongrass, eucalyptus, potpourri and peat notes.
Palate: True to aroma, oranges, pink grapefruit, mango, ripe pears, burnt toast, green tea, eucalyptus drops, white pepper, notes of hay, leather and oak.
Finish : medium long, with notes of toasted oak, hay, mixed herbs, citrus and a touch of fennel.