Bowmore reviews

No Water: Oily, long thick legs Nose: smooth peat, burnt matches, Toasted vanilla, something fruity - citrus? Taste: Very pleasantly covers the mouth, no peppery sting - just some spice at the sides of…

Typical of this Raw Cask-series by Blackadder is the cask sediment you find in each bottle. Hence the name, of course. This Bowmore from 1989 was recently launched by Robin Tucek and his team. It is very…

The Bowmore Tempest Batch 1 is something of a cult whisky and hence a collectors item. By now, three new batches have been released. This 4th batch, just out, matured on first fill bourbon barrels and…

The Italian bottler Wilson & Morgan (does not really sound Italian, now does it?) bottled this sherry finshed Bowmore in 2012. Wilson & Morgan was founded by current CEO Fabio Rossi, who followed in his…

Bowmore's 15 year old in a proper first fill dark sherry cask. Shame that its only bottled at 43% ABV, i think Bowmore could have done a bit better there, but let that not detract from a thoroughly…

David Stirk’s Creative Whisky Company comprises three ranges, including the Exclusive Casks, consisting of single malts that received an extra finish in a special cask before being bottled at cask str…

I had tried this 21 year old Bowmore at a tasting in August, but was given a sample for re-evaluation at home, despite my praise at the time. Who am I to refuse a free sample? It was matured on a refill…

When I tried this 17 year old Bowmore for the first time, it was not in the ideal circumstances. After all, I was working in the Tunisian desert as you can see in that particular Whisky Rambling on…

While the Belgian independent botller Asta Morris just released their newest (a 9 Year Old Glenburgie, which we tasted earlier this week), let us go back to one of the very first bottlings Bert Bruyneel…

Amazing Casks was supposed to become a special range within the Malts of Scotland franchise. Thomas Ewers and Luc Timmermans would be selecting these from time to time, but due to circumstances only one…