Bowmore reviews

Bowmore seems to be the overlooked middle child of Islay. A lot of people hate them, seemingly for no reason. I get that most of their core expressions are bottled at a low abv. While that’s disappoin…

Well, well, this whisky was only launched this year and already it has all the hallmarks of a future classic and is hence nowhere to be found – unless you are willing to pay a small fortune. I was lucky…

It’s a public secret that this Sailing Seagull from the Regensburger Whisky & Weinclub in Germany is actually Bowmore. It was bottled in 2018 as private clubbottling and vatted from sherry, bourbon and…

Adelphi, the independent bottler who has recently also released its very first single malt – Ardnamurchan – bottled this old Bowmore. It’s a refill sherry cask that was filled in 1994 and then matured…

An independently bottled Bowmore from one of Scotland’s oldest bottlers? No need to ask me twice. No less than 17 years did this Bowmore spend on a bourbon cask before yielding still 270 bottles at a…

Standard Bowmore releases seem to get no love from the whisky connoisseur community. Sure, older bottlings from the 1960s and 1970s are sought after, as are Bowmore offerings from Independent Bottlers…

Nose: slightly sharp, fragrant smoke. Somewhat reminiscent of burnt paper. Vague, lemony sweetness underneath. A bit of black cherry.Taste: a thin mouthfeel leads into sweetly smoky flavours. A funkiness…

‘Honey, my friend Bob is popping over to pick up a bottle around 8, okay?’‘Sure thing, sweetheart.’ I’ve got the best wife in the galaxy.Bob arrived around 8.30pm and left – after another infamous front…

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.NoseWell…

We know Adelphi not only as the independent bottler, but also as the people behind the Ardnamurchan Distillery. As bottlers, they have almost every distillery on the market, always in single cask, wit…