Rosebank's average rating is 86/100 from 43 reviews and 89 ratings
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I think it is fair to say that Rosebank is in the top five of closed distilleries. This King of the Lowlands was shut down in 1993 and for the longest time it looked like it would never re-open. But then…
By @markjedi12 years ago 391
Ah, a golden auldie from The Ultimate from the Dutch bottler van Wees, distilled in 1991 and already bottled in 1998. Thanks to my buddy Manny I was able to score a sample. Oh, my, look how pale it is…
By @markjedi13 years ago 085
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…
By @markjedi13 years ago 186
MacKillop’s Choice is in independent bottler founded by Angus Dundee in 1996 with Lorne MacKillop who started his career as a Master of Wine in 1984. Next to single casks as 43% and 46% most of the…
By @markjedi13 years ago 087
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…
By @markjedi13 years ago 085
Gordon & Macphail have some 50 releases of Rosebank so far, but the last time they bottled a cask of this closed Lowlander is a few years ago already. This release appeared over 10 years ago in their…
By @markjedi13 years ago 178
It had been way too long since I last tried a Rosebank. The news that Ian MacLeod’s plans to reopen Rosebank have been approved, has put this legendary Lowlander back on my radar. Happy dance. This is…
By @markjedi13 years ago 383
From a sample - This Rosebank was distilled in June 1990, matured in a refill sherry hogshead and bottled in April 2006 by Gordon & MacPhail in their “Connoisseurs Choice” series.The nose is light and…
By @Pierre_W4 years ago 482
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…
By @Pierre_W6 years ago 081
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…
By @Pierre_W7 years ago 091
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