Rosebank 1990 18 Year Old Sherry Butt Dun Bheagan

Rosebank 12 Year Old

As we all know, Rosebank will never return. The distillery was mothballed in 1993 and all buildings and contents were sold to British Waterways in 2002. In the same year the maltings were demolished, and metal thieves reportedly stole the original stills in 2008. Nowadays, Scottish Canals are looking to redevelop the site into restaurants, office...

Score 81/100

Rosebank 19 Year Old 1990 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Rosebank, the queen of the Lowlands, is currently being rebuilt and if all goes well it will in fact reopen this year. We’ll have to wait and see whether they succeed in recreating the old style. In the meantime, I’ll try an older bottling from Old Malt Cask, when the brand was still owned by Douglas Laing. Spring fresh nose on barley sugars,...

Score 85/100

Rosebank 21 Year Old 1990 Murray McDavid Mission Gold

Murray McDavid is an independent bottler that often experiments with wine casks (their former link to Bruichladdich undoubtedly has something to do with that). Today I am trying a Rosebank from their Mission Gold series, 21 years old and matured solely on a bourbon cask. The nose is typical Rosebank: creamy vanilla, loads of citrus, Granny Smith...

Score 85/100

Rosebank 1981 20 Year Old

Between 1998 and 2004, Diageo released four different Rosebank bottlings in their 'Rare Malts' range. This review refers to the third release from 2002, bottle no. 5,637 of a 20-year old version. Sadly, and as we all know, Rosebank will never return. The maltings have been demolished to make way for housing development, and the stills were stolen...

Score 91/100