Bowmore 9 Year Old 1998 Provenance Douglas Laing

Bowmore 17 Years PX Feis Ile 2016

Another day. Another Islay whisky reviewed. This time it's the 2016 Feis Ile hand-fill from Bowmore. Matured for 17 years in a single Pedro Ximenez cask this was scooped out of the barrel and served to us straight as we sat in the distillery's tasting room at 10.30 in the morning. The sunny weather was showing no signs of letting up as we...

Score 86/100

Bowmore 15 Year Old - Darkest

Nose: When appropriately cold, like smelling a slightly smoky and very dark chocolate candy: with wafts of toffee vanilla, cinnamon, cedar, and dark cherry. When a tad warm, like a pig on an island spit-- ham roasting over a pile of cedar and lighter fluid. Unless you are actually at such a bacony beachside barbecue, you should make precautions to...

Score 88/100

Bowmore SMWS Feis Ile 2015

The SMWS bottlings have held a certain level of mystique over me for some reason. The way they don't put the name of the distillery on the bottle and 'hide' it behind numbers and fancy descriptions. The minimalism of their packaging. The near brilliant consistency of their whiskies. Everything ticks the right boxes for me. I remember my first...

Score 90/100

Bowmore 12 Year Old

Having tasted my first Bowmore 12 year at brunch last week, I decided that it would be my next bottle purchase. I am now enjoying a glass on a miserable, wet Saturday afternoon. Every bit as good as my first tasting, it has just the right amount of peaty smokiness and smoothness, with just the right amount of burn to make it interesting. I love...

Score 90/100