Bowmore Horse Trials 2002

Bowmore 11 Year Old 1999 G&M Secret Stills 4.16

Gordon & Macphail bottles young whisky under their ‘Secret Stills’ label, although the secret is out. Still no 4 is Bowmore. This is already their 16th Bowmore under this label, bottled at the very accessible strength of 45% ABV. It is a vatting of bourbon barrels 32813 and 32814, that yielded 590 bottles. The nose reveals classic coastal...

Score 81/100

Bowmore 10 Year Old Tempest

Bowmore's Tempest range is an annual small batch release of 10 year old malt and is non-chill filtered. This particular bottle is Batch No. 3. The packaging says it is like "straight out of a first fill Bourbon cask in our No. 1 vaults" (which, by the way, are below sea level!) It is also one of the more reasonably priced of the Bowmore...

Score 92/100

Bowmore 15 Year Old - Darkest

A reviewer needs to be honest, even when that means attesting to an experience at variance with those of others. As an Apostle of the message of the large degree of batch variation present in many whiskies I never find it strange that the same whisk(e)y can taste great from one bottle and horrid from the next, or that a brand with which one has...

Score 89/100

Bowmore 16 Year Old 1996 Wilson & Morgan

The Italian bottler Wilson & Morgan (does not really sound Italian, now does it?) bottled this sherry finshed Bowmore in 2012. Wilson & Morgan was founded by current CEO Fabio Rossi, who followed in his father Mario’s footsteps, who in turn took over the business of his father Guiseppe. Guiseppe was importer of fine wines and oils in the...

Score 85/100