Rosebank 19 Year Old Sestante

Rosebank 10 Year Old 1990 Signatory Millennium Edition

There is currently a new distillery being built near Falkirk, which might be considered to be the resurrection of sorts of Rosebank (they did not succeed in getting the name from Diageo, though). But Falkirk Distillery is far from operational, so we have to make due with the lost glory. This 10 Year Old was bottled by Signatory as a Millennium...

Score 81/100

Rosebank 30 Year Old 1990 Release One

I think it is fair to say that Rosebank is in the top five of closed distilleries. This King of the Lowlands was shut down in 1993 and for the longest time it looked like it would never re-open. But then Ian MacLeod stepped in – which we know mostly from Glengoyne and Tamdhu – and announced in 2017 that they would bring Rosebank back. The...

Score 91/100

Rosebank SMWS 25.32 Bath Salts and Raspberry Jam

So, this was a limited release of around 211 bottles by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, of an 11 year old unnamed (and silent) distillery named something like ROSEBANK! Finished in port pipe. I scored a sample from Master of Malt, and decided to save it, giving myself some treat at the end of a long set of sampling misses and hits. Sometimes, we...

Score 94/100

Rosebank 12 Year Old (Flora and Fauna)

Nose: Strong malt, sweet bread like Hawaiian bread, vanilla, sweet lemons, flowers, sea salt, freshly cut grass, hay, coriander, rosemary. Taste: Soft sweetness that turns dry, lemon zest, cream puffs, oak. Very fresh. Finish: Dry, floral, a touch of bitter citrus. I think of this as being a fall whisky, but not for reasons that Islay whiskies...

Score 88/100