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Bowmore 10 Year Old Tempest

Dominic’s notes: Duhh-de. Duhh- de…. Just when you thought it was safe to go back to The Bowmore… This is Bon Jovi playing Queens of The Stone Age, an X Factor contestant playing stoner rock…all scuzzy, oily, dirty rock and roll malt with its heart in the gutter. The cask strength is the whisky equivalent up to turning your amp up to11. It’s loud,...

Score 90/100

Bowmore 15 Year Old - Darkest

Bowmore is the oldest distillery on Islay, established a whopping 235 years ago in 1779. It is one of the last distilleries to have its own floor malting (only five other Scottish distilleries still do this), and also has an incredibly unique maturation area, the No.1 Vaults: the oldest maturation warehouse in Scotland, and the only one below sea...

Score 87/100

Bowmore Legend

Last time I tried this young Bowmore, without age statement but with a strong name, was in 2010. The nose is soft on all kinds of citrus fruit, sweetened with loads of karamel and a lost litchi. The smoke development is soft, somewhat drowned out in the honey and sweet malt. It is nicely oily on the palate, sweet from the first sip with a lovely...

Score 80/100

Bowmore 23 Year Old 1989 Port Cask Matured

This new Limited Edition (is that not a misnomer with no less than twelve thousand bottles?) matured for 23 long years on port casks. It was distilled in the year Suntory got its first shares in this Islay distillery (the majority of shares and hence control would follow a few years later). Another gem that I brought home from a whisky festival....

Score 89/100