Bowmore 16 Year Old 1990 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing

Bowmore 17 Year Old

When I tried this 17 year old Bowmore for the first time, it was not in the ideal circumstances. After all, I was working in the Tunisian desert as you can see in that particular Whisky Rambling on YouTube. So it was time to try this again, at home. The nose reveals sweet peat and a touch of brine at the very beginning. The fruit, which...

Score 84/100

Bowmore No. 1

The Bowmore No. 1 should be seen as the new entry level malt. It is friendly priced, bottled at drinking strength and easy to find. No age statement, but I guess that is no longer an issue, or is it? It matured exclusively on first fill bourbon casks. The nose is sweet and fresh on vanilla, apples, grapes, lime (including zest) and lots of sea...

Score 81/100

Bowmore Cask Strength

I bought a case of this expression almost a year and a half ago at my Malt Society's annual Christmas bash. It was very warmly received thanks to the cold weather and high ABV. Now I didn't think much of it back then; probably because I was too busy doing other stuff to really take notice. So tonight when I spotted a half-empty bottle at the back...

Score 90/100

Bowmore 10 Year Old 2000 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Douglas Laing, well-known independent bottler, released this young Bowmore from 2000 for the famous La Maison du Whisky in Paris. Strange to bottle something so young under the Old Malt Cask label. Oh, well. It is a sherry butt that yielded 516 bottles. The nose shows a basket full of ripe mandarin and gooseberries. Surprisingly fresh. Then out...

Score 82/100