Bowmore 10 Year Old Bottled 1990s

Bowmore 12 Year Old 2001 Blackadder Raw Cask for The Nectar

The Belgian importer The Nectar, who bottles quite a few casks themselves, brought us this Bowmore 2001 two years ago. It is from the stables of Robin Tucek and his team. Raw Cask means that it was not chillfiltered nor colored and some cask residue is still in the bottle. It is very pale and bottled at a sturdy strength. I do not get the typical...

Score 84/100

Bowmore Legend

This was my first venture into Islay malts a year ago...unfortunately. I should have gone with a better introductory whisky, but I just went with the cheapest bottle that said "Islay" on it! Well, I didn't care much for it, so a year after opening this bottle, I still haven't really made a dent in it! I am planning on giving this bottle...

Score 50/100

Bowmore 15 Year Old 1998 Chester Whisky

This relatively young Bowmore is the first outing to Isaly from the English Chester Whisky & Liqueur Company. The bourbon hogshead yielded 242 bottles of a very pale dram. Did you know, by the way, that the Chester releases are in fact distributed in Belgium by Dominiek Bouckaert? Then it has to be good, right? Dominiek is also the man behind...

Score 88/100

Bowmore 11 Year Old Hart Brothers

As we all know, Bowmore distillery is located on Islay, on the South Eastern shore of Loch Indaal, and is said to have been founded in 1779. Today the distillery is owned by Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd, a holding company of the Japanese drinks giant Beam Suntory. This particular bottling was distilled in October 2002 and bottled in February...

Score 86/100