Rosemaund Farm Whisky has released The Director’s Cut, its third 10-year-old English single malt and the first bottling available to buy directly without a ballot. The whisky launches on 1 September 2026 through rosemaund.com and selected UK specialist retailers.
Limited to 3,000 individually numbered bottles, The Director’s Cut is bottled at 48% ABV and carries a UK RRP of £126 for 70cl.
Rosemaund’s first two releases were allocated by ballot, reflecting their small outturns and allowing the Herefordshire distillery to distribute bottles fairly among its earliest customers. Those launches revealed something the team had not anticipated. A significant number of customers were choosing Rosemaund as a gift.
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Following both releases, the distillery received repeated requests for elevated packaging so bottles could be given for birthdays, anniversaries and Christmas.
“The ballot was the right way to introduce Rosemaund and allocate two very small releases fairly,” said James Dashwood Chase, co-founder of Rosemaund Farm Whisky. “What surprised us was how many customers were buying the whisky for someone else. We had assumed Rosemaund would principally be a whisky people bought for themselves, and we could not have been more wrong.”
He added: “The Director’s Cut remains deliberately limited, but it should be possible to choose it, purchase it and give it.”
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For the release, master blender Tristan Stephenson and the Rosemaund team selected a marriage of ex-bourbon casks, Oloroso Sherry casks and a touch of virgin oak.
According to the official notes from the brand, the nose opens with baked red apple, orange soda, wild berries and nutmeg. The palate is oily yet fragrant, with toasted oak, malt and baking spices, leading to a long finish of white pepper and ripe autumn stone fruit.
“The Director’s Cut feels unmistakably Rosemaund, but it shows a deeper and more autumnal side of the whisky,” Dashwood Chase said.
The launch comes as whisky production has restarted at Rosemaund Farm. The family-led distillery will lay down up to 200 new casks during 2026.
Existing customers and friends of the distillery will receive private first access ahead of the public launch.
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