Bowmore 1966 34 Year Old Hart Brothers

Bowmore 10 Year Old 1992 Signatory Un-Chillfiltered

This Bowmore has been in the bottle for almost twice as long as it has spent in wood. Distilled in 1992 and bottled after ten years of maturation in 2003 by Signatory – at drinking strength. That’s almost twenty years ago. I thank my brother in drams Manny for the sample. On the nose, it is a textbook example of bourbon-aged Bowmore. Lemon,...

Score 85/100

Bowmore 10 Year Old 1999 Smoking Buffalo

This Bowmore cask, number 357, was chosen by two Belgian whisky retailers, to celebrate the Cup Final 2010 of Belgian football. You will find it in many a cabinet of Belgian whiskylovers and fans of KAA Gent (my hometown football team). I secured bottle 45 of the 322. Tasting this one blind, I would never have guessed this was a Bowmore. The...

Score 70/100

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 2001/2012 Maltbarn

Description: matured in a ex-sherry butt for 11 solid years and bottled by the German Independent bottler Maltbarn. Nose: a straightforward deep earthy nose: we're in the garage once more with a trail of motor oil, thick black exhaust smoke and leather seats, subdued lies a layer of peat with a pinch seaweed humus. The whole is richly soaked in...

Score 85/100