Rosebank 1990 15 Year Old Aberdeen Distillers

Rosebank 12 Year Old 1989 Silver Seal

Rosebank closed already in 1993, but the whisky still appears on the market regularly (although less and less for obvious reasons). This bottling already dates back to 2001, from the Max Righi stables. I scored the sample at the festival for independent bottlers in Belgium. The nose is very light and offers mostly citrus, but not much else. A...

Score 83/100

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 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

Rosebank 17 Year Old 1991 Gordon & Macphail Reserve

This is another bottling by Gordon & Macphail, but under their RESERVE label, bottled at cask strength, in this case a whopping 54,4% ABV from this as-of-1993-mothballed distillery. Reopening is a pipe dram as the buildings were sold in 2006 and the remaining distillery equipment was stolen in 2009. Rosebank is lost forever, so taste it while...

Score 80/100