Rosemaund Farm Whisky has unveiled The Director’s Cut, its third 10-year-old English single malt and the first Rosemaund release that customers will be able to purchase directly without entering a ballot.

Limited to 3,000 individually numbered bottles, The Director’s Cut is now available from rosemaund.com and selected UK specialist retailers. It is bottled at 48% ABV and has a UK RRP of £126 for 70cl.

Rosemaund’s first two releases were allocated by ballot, reflecting their limited outturns and allowing the distillery to distribute bottles fairly among its earliest customers. However, the releases revealed something the team had not anticipated: a significant number of customers were choosing Rosemaund as a gift. Following both launches, the distillery received repeated requests for elevated packaging so that bottles could be given for birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas and other occasions. That unexpected demand helped shape the decision to make The Director’s Cut available through open sale.

James Dashwood Chase, Co-Founder of Rosemaund Farm Whisky, said: “The ballot was the right way to introduce Rosemaund and allocate two very small releases fairly. What surprised us was how many customers were buying the whisky for someone else. We repeatedly heard from people asking whether we could send them a fresh outer because they wanted to give the bottle as a birthday, anniversary or Christmas present. We had assumed Rosemaund would principally be a whisky people bought for themselves, and we could not have been more wrong. The Director’s Cut remains deliberately limited, but it should be possible to choose it, purchase it and give it. Our earliest customers will still receive private first access, but from 1st September, people discovering Rosemaund for the first time will be able to buy a bottle directly.”

A new bespoke presentation box has now been signed off and entered production. It will be available from October, creating a dedicated gifting format for The Director’s Cut ahead of Christmas.

The Director’s Cut

For The Director’s Cut, Master Blender Tristan Stephenson and the Rosemaund team selected a marriage of ex-bourbon casks, Oloroso sherry casks and a touch of virgin oak. The result is a richer, autumnal evolution of Rosemaund’s second release, The Orchard Cut. The bourbon casks preserve Rosemaund’s bright, orchard-led house character, while the Oloroso sherry and virgin oak introduce additional fruit, spice, warmth and complexity without overwhelming the underlying spirit.

The nose opens with baked red apple, orange soda, wild berries and nutmeg. The palate is oily yet fragrant, with a focused core of toasted oak, malt and baking spices, leading to a long finish of white pepper and ripe autumn stone fruit.

James Dashwood Chase said “The Director’s Cut feels unmistakably Rosemaund, but it shows a deeper and more autumnal side of the whisky. It remains led by the orchard fruit and malt character at the heart of our spirit, while the sherry and virgin oak bring warmth, spice and depth. It is a whisky made to be opened, poured and shared – which makes the way our customers have been gifting Rosemaund feel particularly appropriate.”

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, beginning a new archive of English single malt made for long maturation in Herefordshire.

The Director’s Cut is available from rosemaund.com and selected UK specialist retailers from 1st September 2026.

Tasting Notes

• Colour: Burnished gold
• Nose: Baked red apple, orange soda, wild berries and nutmeg
• Palate: Oily and fragrant, with toasted oak, malt, autumn fruit and baking spices
• Finish: Long and elegant, with white pepper and ripe autumn stone fruit
• Age: 10 years
• Cask composition: Ex-bourbon, Oloroso sherry and virgin oak
• ABV: 48%
• Bottle size: 70cl
• Outturn: 3,000 individually numbered bottles
• UK RRP: £126
• General availability: 1st September 2026
• Presentation box: Available from October 2026