Bowmore 1984 16 Year Old

Bowmore 12 Year Old

I received this bottle over the Holidays and thought it was about time I opened it. I also thought it was time I wrote my first review on the site so here it is. Nose:Smoke and Peat. Vanilla bean ice cream while walking by the seaside. Taste: Hints of smoke along with lightly charred wood. Toffee drizzled with chocolate and honey delivered with a...

Score 85/100

Bowmore 10 Year Old Tempest

The first of the Bowmore Tempest releases, a very decent and well priced Bowmore expression that I personally find quite pleasing. In my opinion it is a few steps up from their regular expression line up. N:Light citrus over even lighter caramel, then smoke. Nose eventually gives way to large peaty notes accompanied by brine and light vanilla....

Score 79/100

Bowmore 15 Year Old 1998 Chester Whisky

This relatively young Bowmore is the first outing to Isaly from the English Chester Whisky & Liqueur Company. The bourbon hogshead yielded 242 bottles of a very pale dram. Did you know, by the way, that the Chester releases are in fact distributed in Belgium by Dominiek Bouckaert? Then it has to be good, right? Dominiek is also the man behind...

Score 88/100

Bowmore Darkest Sherry Cask Finish

Firstly I should probably make it abundantly clear that these notes relate to the Bowmore Darkest from the "old" series, which had no age statement on the bottle and was - as the name suggests - quite a dark coloured whisky. The first thing you notice is of course the colour - a sort of attention-grabbing deep auburn. If this was the...

Score 80/100