Bowmore 18 Year Old

The reviewed sample is courtesy of @Nock. The bottle has been open for six months and is 75% full. This is a standard distillery bottling

Nose: the classic Bowmore style of medium peat, somewhat to the sweet side, leather, and a little brine, comes through beautifully here

Taste: the palate tilts significantly to the sweet side, but otherwise Bowmore 18 tastes just as it smells. Jim Murray describes this one as Fisherman's Friend style cough medicine sweet, and it does have some of this characteristic. This is pleasant, though

Finish: on sweet and bitter peat and leather

Balance: Well, Bowmore polarises, at all ages, including the young, the old and this 18 yo. I like all of the Bowmores OK, including the much-maligned McClelland's Islay Single Malt. This 18 yo is a great example of the mainstream Bowmore style, and shows all of Bowmore's house style characteristics in full mature prototypical fashion. I don't consider it high whisky art, but I like it and I enjoy drinking it

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