Bowmore 10 Year old Tempest

Bowmore get down and dirty

Reviewed by
Connosr member:

WTC

Date:

19th Nov 2011

Reviewer rating:

90

About this score:

The average score for this whisky is 86.

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Tasting Notes by WTC

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, proud and a savoury monster mash. One PR girl reckoned I didn’t like it. Hell, girl, this is Hunter S Thompson, Millwall, Neil Warnock, Liam Gallagher and Rab E Nesbitt rolled in to one. No, I don’t like it.. I love it!

But I’m not sure how normal I am…

Tony adds:

So we have batch 1 tempest in our Islay pack and we also tasted it at the 2010 festival when it was their feis ile bottling. We were all big fans of the Batch 1, classic Bowmore flavours with more punch and peat. The Batch 2 was a lighter, sweeter affair. With this batch 3 they have gone right the other way, its a more full on peaty number. It is more old style peat (think Bowmore/Uigeadail hybrid) with a rough hit but tremendous length. The nose opens up a lot with water, and overall I prefer it slightly diluted. Initially I thought I preferred batch 1, but the more I have the less sure I am. At £40 a bottle I would say its worth a go, its going on my next order.

Score is an amalgam of WTC members and do not necessarily reflect the views of any one person

Whisky details

Distillery/Brand:

Bowmore

Bottling:

Region:

Islay

ABV:

55.6%

Colour:

Bowmore 10 Year old Tempest Bowmore get down and dirty Reviewed on 2011-11-19T13:58:00 scoring 90/100 by WTC

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Comments

michaelschout

michaelschout wrote:

@WTC Hilarious and great review.

19 November 2011 14:10
Lars

Lars wrote:

Love it, great review I wish I could write like that. Thumbs up!

19 November 2011 15:16
WTC

WTC wrote:

thanks guys, Dom has his own style all right :)

19 November 2011 22:46

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