Bowmore 1966 35 Year Old Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Bowmore Legend

The toffee nose is quite nice but then you get something from the sea, iodique, salted... Then the mouth is smokey and turns to pepper, the finish is definitively pepper. I wasn't expected such pepper note and it was too strong to distinguish something else. The finish is definitively pepper an disappointing for me.

Score 63/100

Bowmore Legend

This Bowmore Legend did not get an age stetement, but the resounding name 'Legend' makes your expectations rise. But to no avail, I'm afraid. You would expect some peat, obviously, cause this is Islay after all, but I also smell smoked ham, rubber, wet carton boxes and even a horse's tail. It has a nice mouthfeel and is rather oily, tasting of...

Score 77/100

Bowmore SMWS Feis Ile 2015

The SMWS bottlings have held a certain level of mystique over me for some reason. The way they don't put the name of the distillery on the bottle and 'hide' it behind numbers and fancy descriptions. The minimalism of their packaging. The near brilliant consistency of their whiskies. Everything ticks the right boxes for me. I remember my first...

Score 90/100

Bowmore 11 Year Old 1998 Jack Wiebers Prenzlow

Alfred Prenzlow is an artist living in Leverkusen (Germany), who became famous for his paintings and sketches of everything to do with whisky. In the Prenzlow Portfolio Collection, released by Jack Wiebers, are four Islay whiskies: a Bruichladdich, a Bunnahabhain, an Ardbeg and this Bowmore from 1998. The nose starts off immediately very...

Score 87/100