Bowmore Tempest 10 Year Old Batch 4

Bowmore 10 Year Old 1992 Signatory Un-Chillfiltered

This Bowmore has been in the bottle for almost twice as long as it has spent in wood. Distilled in 1992 and bottled after ten years of maturation in 2003 by Signatory – at drinking strength. That’s almost twenty years ago. I thank my brother in drams Manny for the sample. On the nose, it is a textbook example of bourbon-aged Bowmore. Lemon,...

Score 85/100

Bowmore 15 Year Old Laimrig batch 3

Laimrig is Gaelic for pier and thus refers to the ancient stone pier at the distillery. It is a cask strength 15 Year Old Bowmore, matured on Spanish sherry butts. This is their third batch, 18.000 bottles strong. The first batch was only available in Sweden and consisted of only 4.500 bottles. The second batch, which counted 15.000 bottles, was a...

Score 87/100

Bowmore 12 Year Old

So I opened a bottle of one of my all time favourite daily drams yesterday, and whilst browsing through my old reviews I realised I had missed this one! The shame! So it's time to put that right. Nose Well balanced with both savoury and sweet elements. The smoke is up front but not overpowering, instead it works to frame the flavour profiles that...

Score 84/100

Bowmore 15 Year Old Feis Ile 2018

Ah… Feis Ile, the Music & Malt Festival on Islay… a dream for collectors, for every distillery obviously has a special bottling for this occasion. In 2018 Bowmore launched this 15 years old malt on first fill oloroso, which explains the dark color. I poured it at my own Feis Ile tasting in Ghent on the 24th May 2019, which was actually the day...

Score 86/100