Rosebank 8 Year Old Bottled 1980s

Rosebank 12 Year Old (Flora and Fauna)

Recently my wife and I finally got a chance to go out to eat at a nice restaurant after over a month of working 15 hr days, 7 days a week. We'd decided upon the Rockpool Bar and Grill due to the reviews we'd heard and the fact of their whisky selection. They had two Rosebanks up for tasting on top of quite a few other whiskies. The Rosebanks are...

Score 84/100

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 15 Year Old 1990 Gordon & Macphail Cask StrengthgORG

Gordon & Macphail, one of Scotland’s oldest independent bottlers, already has more than 50 casks of Rosebank on their CV. Not all of them are equally good. Some are downright ordinary, while others are true gems. I wonder in what category I’ll be placing this 15 years old malt, distilled in 1990 and bottled at cask strength in 2006, drawn from...

Score 86/100

Rosebank 10 Year Old (Chieftain's Choice)

Rosebank enjoys the reputation of having produced some of the best Lowland whiskies in her day. Unfortunately, the distillery was closed in 1993 and the buildings have been partly sold for a housing project. The version I tasted was not the better known Fauna & Flora bottle, but the rather obscure Chieftain’s Choice (Ian McLeod Distillers),...

Score 82/100