Bowmore 12 Year Old Bottled 1990's

Bowmore 21 Year Old 1989 Siler Seal

‘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-door-tasting – around 12.30am. But we sure tasted some grand stuff. One of the highlights was this older Bowmore from Silver Seal (of which I...

Score 88/100

Bowmore 15 Year Old - Darkest

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 disappointing I enjoy most of their offerings nonetheless. There’s a time and place for everything. I should note that my bottle did not say “Darkest” on it,...

Score 87/100

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 Feis Ile 2018

Ah… Feis Ile, the Music & Malt Festival on Islay… a dream for collectors, for every distillery obviously has a special bottling for this occasion. In 2018 Bowmore launched this 15 years old malt on first fill oloroso, which explains the dark color. I poured it at my own Feis Ile tasting in Ghent on the 24th May 2019, which was actually the day...

Score 86/100