Bowmore Mariner 15 Year Old Screen Printed Label

Bowmore 15 Year Old Laimrig batch 1

This is a review of bottle 17734 of 18000. It has been open for a month and is 85% full. I am reviewing this bottle now because in the first month it was all over the place. I make a rule for myself by note judging a whisky on the first drink of the bottle but with this one my hope went skyrocketting because the first drink taste like an...

Score 90/100

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

Duncan Taylor The Octave - Bowmore 1982

After reading the outline of how this one works - with the high-wood contact small cask conditioning - I was expecting a bit of a sherried belter, however it turned out to be quite a delicious and structured dram that was all about the pleasure and not in this slightest about punishment. My initial sniff had to be toned down considerably, with the...

Score 85/100

Bowmore 1999 / 16 Year Old / Feis Ile 2016/Old Particular

Feis Ile bottlings are no longer the exclusivity of Islay producers. Quite a few bottlers jump on the bandwagon with great eagerness. This Bowmore from 1999 was released for Feis Ile 2016 in Douglas Laing’s Old Particular series. Very soft, almost delicate nose with a lot of sweetness on the left and some maritime notes on the right. Apricots,...

Score 86/100