Rosebank 1990 21 Year Old Cask #8227 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Rosebank 1981 25 Year Old

Last night I got a chance to finally go out to eat at a nice restaurant with my wife. Even more I got a chance to try several whiskies from a distillery that has been closed since 1993. Rosebank. When I saw that distillery on their menu online I must admit I giggled a little. OK maybe it was a little more then a little. OK I just about died from...

Score 96/100

Rosebank SMWS 25.63 - Poire et poivre

Thought I would squeeze in some tasting notes before dinner - ambitious, eh? But really, this is driven by my desire to free up the overcrowded whisky-rack and countertop space in my kitchen. It's slowly working. Three firsts here with this write-up: my first Rosebank, my first closed distillery (I think) and my first SMWS bottling. Rosebank was a...

Score 94/100

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 1981 25 Year Old

Nose, Taste, Finish and Balance are graded out of 2.5 each: Nose: It sounds almost too obvious, but there's immediately a distinct smell of roses - roses planted on a lush bed of smokey earth. It's all roses, then the smoke comes in, and suddenly out of nowhere we have chocolate truffle, of the fruit liqueur variety. Once we get through that,...

Score 95/100