Black Bowmore 1964 42 Year Old Sherry Cask

Bowmore 22 Year Old 1989 Malts of Scotland

Yet another Bowmore. But then, can you ever have enough? Bow more, I say. This is a 22 Year Old, recently bottled by Malts of Scotland. The nose transports you to the rocky coast of Islay with its typical seaweed and soft, sweet peat. It smells rather fatty. Farmer’s butter. Citrus, banana and toffee make it nicely sweet. After a while, I even get...

Score 88/100

Bowmore 19 Year Old 1997 Adelphi

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, without chill filtration or coloring. This is a Bowmore from 1997 that slept for almost two decades on a refill sherry cask. I’m looking forward to this...

Score 88/100

Bowmore 22 Year Old 1989 Blackadder Raw Cask

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 pale, which makes me think it was a somewhat tired sherry cask. I get the typical maritime Bowmore notes on the nose, accompanied by a load of...

Score 87/100

Bowmore Tempest Aged 10 Years Small Batch Release V

This one is the fifth release of their small batch, cask strength, non-chill-filtered 10 year old, matured in first-fill bourbon barrels. I always look forward to these releases! The colour is a light gold. On the nose we have lots of honey and vanilla - the cask influence is apparent, even after only 10 years. The light peat stays in the...

Score 89/100