Rosebank 15 Year Old

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)

This is the well known - and much praised - official Rosebank from the Flora & Fauna series (a term, by the way, that was coined by whisky guru Michael Jackson). The first thing that hits you on this utterly soft, but oh so sweet, nose is the typical floral a fruity characteristics: camomile, pears, sap of unmatured graps and a touch of cream....

Score 82/100

Rosebank 20 yo (1990/2011) Silver Seal

This 20 yo Rosebank is bottled by the glorious italian label "Silver Seal", Sestante collection. N: neat, the strong anise notes, together with juniper and artemisia herbs immediately stand out. Then this Rosebank slightly opens on a sweetness hard to define; you feel a fresh maltiness, that is still quite closed and pungent even if...

Score 91/100

Rosebank 17yo Hart Brothers 1990/2008

Rosebank 17 Hart Brothers 1990/2008 My first Rosebank! Nose: Sweet herbal notes, starfruit, unripe apple/pear, apple danish, slightly floral. Light toffee emerges with time. A little minerally. Taste: Tart / bitter citrus arrival, a little hot (prickly) in places, mellows to a slightly oaked, grainy affair but rounded and pleasantly...

Score 83/100