Bowmore 40 Year Old 1970 Cask Strength Collection Rare Reserve Signatory

Bowmore 100 Degrees Proof

At 100 degrees proof (UK) you are supposed to be able to wet gunpowder with it and still light it, as a test for undiluted spirit. In my opinion, some of this gunpowder was left with the whisky. I like the nose, with more smoke than the usual Bowmore and some other things going on, but on the pallate I sensed a burned rubber undertone, that took...

Score 80/100

Bowmore Bw6 Elements of Islay

This sixth batch of Bowmore is new and only arrived in Belgium in the first week of November 2016. The nice thing about this is that was composed by Mariella Romano, the Specialty Drinks ambassador that presented this to us the week before during a tasting. She was allowed to fool around with four casks from 1999. The result is a Bowmore that is...

Score 88/100

Bowmore 12 Year Old 2001 Signatory UCF

I found this young Bowmore at the Spirits in the Sky festival in Brussel early November. It is bottled by Andrew Symington in the Un-Chillfiltered Collection from Signatory and is just a month shy of being 13 years old, distilled on 25 September 2001 and bottled on 25 August 2014. Hello? This is a very sweet and fruity Bowmore with hardly any...

Score 84/100

Bowmore 11 Year Old 1999 G&M Secret Stills 4.16

Gordon & Macphail bottles young whisky under their ‘Secret Stills’ label, although the secret is out. Still no 4 is Bowmore. This is already their 16th Bowmore under this label, bottled at the very accessible strength of 45% ABV. It is a vatting of bourbon barrels 32813 and 32814, that yielded 590 bottles. The nose reveals classic coastal...

Score 81/100