Roseisle – 12 Year Old 2023 Special Release (70cl, 56.5%)

Roseisle – 12 Year Old 2023 Special Release is a whisky from Roseisle (Speyside). Aged 12 years, bottled at 56.5% ABV, 70cl. Roseisle was mired in controversy even before construction had even started. The largest distiller, building a large distillery signalled some doom-mongers to predict that parent firm Diageo would use Roseisle’s opening as an excuse to close down some of its smaller sites. It soon became the equivalent of a whisky Death Star. In reality its size, at 10m litres per annum, was smaller than Glenfiddich, and its construction was merely the first stage in a £1bn investment by Diageo in increasing capacity across its estate. Rather than closing anything down, Roseisle ushered in a new era of distillery building. A biomass plant means it generates much of its own energy, while a heat recovery system allows waste heat from the distillery to help run the maltings at nearby Burghead and across the road at Roseisle. The Origami Kite is Roseisle distillery’s first public release after opening in Speyside in 2009. The Origami Kite