Secret Stills 4.17 Bowmore 2000 Gordon & Macphail

Bowmore 16 Year Old 2000 Signatory for The Nectar

The Nectar, Belgian importer of loads of spirits and organizer of the wonderful Spirits in the Sky festival, went all out for their 10th anniversary. Loads of special bottlings have been releases, too many to list them. But this is one of those, from Signatory. A lovely Bowmore from 2000, at cask strength. The nose is clean and very fruity. All...

Score 87/100

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 15 Year Old Laimrig batch 1

Let me first say that Bowmore has not been on the top of my favourite Islay distilleries. This sherried expression however is a stunner. Neat, the peat, smoke, soot hit you first, followed by dark chocolate and sweet fruit ,hints of cherry and burnt sugar marshmallow and spice. This was made for adding water water as this just allows the fruit and...

Score 94/100

Bowmore 15 Year Old - Darkest

I've tried a lot of whisky or wiskey, depending on which side of the pond they were distilled on. All I can say is that if i ever were stuck on a deserted island and could choose one dram, it would be Bowmore's 15 yr old "Darkest". This Islay single malt just matches me well. The combination of the sherry cask and the smokiness along...

Score 96/100