Bowmore 15 Year Old 1997 Cask 1903 Cask Strength Collection Signatory

Bowmore 11 Year Old 2001 Malts of Scotland

Every smart bottler will include an Islay whisky in any release. Malts of Scotland included two. An 11 Year Old Bowmore and a 13 Year Old Laphroaig. I will try the Laffie later. This is already the 12th Bowmore bottling for Malts of Scotland. It is very pale and sticks to the glass. On the mild nose, the typical citrus is easily overpowered by...

Score 88/100

Bowmore 16 Year Old 2000 Signatory for The Nectar

The Nectar, Belgian importer of loads of spirits and organizer of the wonderful Spirits in the Sky festival, went all out for their 10th anniversary. Loads of special bottlings have been releases, too many to list them. But this is one of those, from Signatory. A lovely Bowmore from 2000, at cask strength. The nose is clean and very fruity. All...

Score 87/100

Bowmore 12 Year Old

I bought this as part of a three pack of minis about a year ago. My brother-in-law had managed to get me a bottle of Laimrig and I wanted to try a few standard bottlings before talking a cask strength expression. I tried all three and I when I got to the Laimrig I didn't feel like they even came from the same distillery. Now, going back to the...

Score 71/100

Bowmore 1989 16 Year Old Bourbon Cask

16 year cask strength packaged in a nice presentation box. States that this is a limited 1989 edition made up of 134 mostly bourbon casks, married and bottled. Picked this up for just shy of 80.00 and that seemed fair. I have only seen this at one store in Louisville KY, and they had several bottles. I am down to my final drams, so this seemed...

Score 88/100