TESTING
The oily notes remain but are complemented with rather beautiful farmy notes, wet hay as often, beech smoke, matchsticks, wet chalk...Very austere in fact but it's a rather magnificent austerity. It got much, much more complex, with rather superb notes of fresh marzipan, stone fruits, plum spirit, butter pears and dried figs. This is good. very long, clean, always on the same notes... And big lemons and citrons. Excellent powerful Rosebank, reminding me of the Rare Malts 1981/2002 at 62.3%. Same kind of enjoyable 'rigidity'.