Bowmore 1973 20 Year Old

Bowmore Single & Single Bowmore 8yo

**Nose:** A true Islay, it features quite some smoke and peat, with a gentle sea-sprat quality, citrus fruit (mostly lemons), and a hint of tar, and lots of creamy vanilla as well, more smoke and some ash. **Palate:** This is one creamy Bowmore, and it looks like the casks were active , Not much information about the cask type, but i suppose it...

Score 86/100

Bowmore 10 Year Old Tempest

Nose: a fresh mix of oranges and sea air. Nice and soft, citrus is the main component here. Then the floral notes appear, with hints of violets. Totally different than those soapy lavender Bowmores though. Strawberry candy! Some vanilla cream as well. Some maritime notes. Mouth: citrus again, but the peat kicks in now. Nice evolution with rather...

Score 85/100

Bowmore 14 Year Old 2001 Malts of Scotland ‘46’

The previous Bowmore ‘46’ was a 12 Year Old from 2002, released last year. This bourbon cask was allowed two extra years of maturation and yielded 330 bottles. As the name of the series suggests, it is cut to a drinking strength of 46%. It is a very pale whisky. Typical though fresh nose with malt, grasses, some peat and something that reminds me...

Score 83/100

Bowmore 10 Year Old Tempest

The Bowmore Tempest is slowly but surely becoming something of a legendary bottling, the first batch in particular. I tasted it at a whiskydinner two years ago, as well at batch 04 at a recent festival. But it would seem that I had not yet published any notes on the first batch, that was quite affordable at the time, around 45 EUR in 2009. The...

Score 87/100