Rosebank ‘Flora & Fauna’ 12yo
When your relatives start asking you which whisky you want for Christmas, count your addiction as obvious.
Rosebank ‘Flora & Fauna’ 12 yo
Nose: Fragrant and light, very floral, touch of ginger and a touch of green. Lemondrops. A whole bouquet of freshly bloomed flowers. Lilacs? But delicately so, like the scent of a beautiful woman as she passes by and you turn, but ah circumstances conspire to thwart a fleeting glimpse. What the eye cannot tell, the nose suggests. Clear honey, musk melons, canned peach. So delicate and so inviting. The ghost of an opportunity lingers to commemorate a moment missed.
And so it is with Rosebank, gone too soon. RIP, 1840 – 1993. “A grievous loss” said Michael Jackson.
Palette: Malty, ginger tea, white pepper. Grass, sucking on apricot stones. Sweet light honey. Not a bad follow on from the nose, but I was led to expect more maybe.
Finish: Dry and a little short, with some citrus, like the moment after a gulp of 7-up. With that nose, who can complain. Lovely lowlander, a great representative of a style that is not in fashion anymore.
Whiskyrific RSS
- Springbank 32 yo 1966 / 1998 #499 55.1%
- Millburn 36 yo 1969 / 2005 Douglas Laing #DL2152 50% vs Glenburgie 40 yo 1963 / 2003 Signatory #4751 56.4%
- Ben Nevis 23 yo 1996 / 2019 Single Malts of Scotland for the Nectar #536 51.3% vs A Speyside Distillery 32 yo 1989 / 2022 Thompson Bros 51.4%
- Brora 22 yo 1972 / 1995 Rare Malts 61.1% vs Brora 22 yo 1972 / 1995 Rare Malts 58.7%
- Talimburg 19 yo 1986 / 2005 The Whisky Fair #1485 45.9% vs Talisker 20 yo 1981 / 2002 62%
- Caol Ila 12 yo Bulloch Lade for Zenith 43% vs Caol Ila 30 yo 1979 / 2010 Berry Bros #4604/5 55.6%
- Clynelish 29 yo 1965 Whyte & Whyte 52.1%
- Brora 21 yo 1982 / 2003 Signatory #416 58.4% vs Clynelish 27 yo 1982 / 2009 Synch Eli Daily Dram 46%
- Dornoch 5 yo 2017 / 2023 #46 ‘Jasper Broers’ 57.9% vs Shizuoka ‘private cask’ 2017 / 2022 #2017-108 61%
- Clynelish 26 yo 1993 / 2020 Carn Mor #11215 52.7% vs Bowmore 17 yo 2004 /2021 SMWS 3.327 ‘Siren’s Song’ 57.1%
whiskyrific 