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| Hello, that is one in all our (virtually) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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January 31, 2022
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Just a few Bow
mores
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There is a new model of Bowmore 9 official that is to be discovered just about in every single place in French supermarkets for a number of Euros (round 25-28), let’s strive it. We’ll then attempt to sort out a number of indies, as normal…
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Bowmore 9 yo (40%, OB, +/-2021) 
Slightly bizarrely, this bottle has been reimported from Spain. The color is slightly orange, even and never very brilliant, which at all times means that a number of caramel has been added. Color: gold/orangey. Nostril: properly, that is typical Bowmore, very coastal and briny, we’re nosing a big plate of smoked oysters sprinkled with a bit teppanyaki sauce. Or is that teriyaki? I at all times confuse these names, the sweeter one… Slightly cranberry juice too, even raspberry jelly. The place does that come from. Nonetheless a really good nostril, although…Mouth: not that mild at 40% vol., very salty, with simply these notes of caramel that will get in the way in which. Certainly, that caramel that you simply’re not imagined to really feel in Scotch whiskies… However that will additionally impart notes of salted butter fudge and that, my pal, simply at all times works. This child would then turn out to be a tad extra unlikely, with some barely rubbery nuttiness, presumably from some ‘cheaper’ sherry casks. Nonetheless good. End: medium and even saltier. Black olives with crumbles of fudge and a few type of grassy liquorice. No ‘lavender’, naturally. Solely the aftertaste is a tad flabby and unusually cardboardy. Feedback: forgot to say pasta de sardinhas, a really Portuguese delicacy. And really salty Bowmore.
SGP:366 – 84 factors. |
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Let’s let the indies unfold as they want…
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Bowmore ‘Crusing Seagull’ (50.4, Regensburger Whisky Membership, 2018) 
A multi-decade vatting of Sixties to 2000s Bowmore finished a number of years again by our mates in Germany. This ought to be slightly fascinating, so long as the Nineteen Eighties don’t dominate this composition; we perceive one another, will we not. Color: bronze gold. Nostril: in fact you are a bit misplaced at first, as pink bananas and guavas combined with brine and coal tar is just not a quite common mixture. I might say the tropical fruits do appear to have the higher hand, which might counsel that the older element in there doesn’t consist in ‘just a few drops’, as any official entity would have finished. No? Now it stays a tad quiet, let’s have a look at… With (a bit) water: smoky plastics, bananas flambéed, ashes and previous coat in a wet nation. It took off! Mouth (neat): some sherry, roasted nuts, bulldog sauce, Marmite, actually some Maggi blended with cough syrup, certainly coal tar, snuff, onion soup, cigar smoke, beef jerky, various tar liqueur, beech ashes… The mouthfeel is slightly creamy. Some bittersweet notes within the background (drier cream sherry, drier amoroso). With water: add just a few drops or it might pull a aside a wee bit. In any other case it turns into very advanced, on many sorts of bitters and natural liqueurs, tobacco, oyster sauce… End: lengthy and even drier. A really previous candy wine that is digested all its sugars, as we are saying. Sauternes – certainly with some botrytis. Bone dry. Feedback: forgot to say, I slightly love this one. Most likely not solely the results of likelihood. Subsequent, an ideal vatting of Brora and Clynelish. Recreation?
SGP:275 – 91 factors. |
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Bowmore 23 yo 1997/2021 (50.3%, Hunter Laing, The First Version, MaltCask & Dadi Liquor, refill hogshead, cask #HL18332, 272 bottles) 
In principle, all the pieces ought to be wonderful. Color: white wine. Nostril: sharp, medicinal (mercurochrome), Sancerre-y (sauvignon blanc certainly), with some chalk and a bit bitter cream, Swiss cheese, Greek yoghurt… All issues that work properly in such whiskies. With water: will get slightly fatter, extra on toasted bread, bread pudding, then simply yoghurt sauce (for kebab) after which uncooked wool, which is extra widespread in these Bowmores. Good enjoyable. Mouth (neat): peppered seawater and lemon liqueur. Some fatness, touches of smoked salmon, inexperienced bell pepper, Thai basil… It is a slightly strong one and never fairly a type of vertical late-Nineties Bowies. I imply Bowmores. With water: all the pieces falls into place, even when it might stay fattish. Slightly a number of pepper, ala Talisker. One thing harking back to pencil shavings too, ala… Caran d’Ache. End: lengthy, with some pretty spices that aren’t simple to pin down: wooden or distillate? Feedback: not too simple however excellent, fairly inexperienced in reality.
SGP:376 – 87 factors. |
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Bowmore 17 yo 2003/2021 (57.8%, The Single Malts of Scotland, barrel, cask #81, 209 bottles) 
This ought to be appropriately minimal. Color: pale white wine. Nostril: it’s appropriately minimal, with some slightly luxurious whiffs of rhubarb and white asparagus (we won’t wait to strive the primary ones this yr), plus pink grapefruits. Immaculate. With water: have I discussed huge white asparagus? I am even pondering Erfurts. Mouth (neat): immaculate certainly, pristine, superbly easy, only a wee tad fattish across the edges (the barrel) however that’s nothing. Pretty salted citrus. With water: tarter, extra on lemon, seawater, kippers, chalk and oysters. In different phrases, Bowmore. End: as soon as once more the barrel is imparting a number of pointless toasted/butterscotch notes however that is completely nothing. Feedback: all about type, as are all one of the best ones in my e book.
SGP:466 – 88 factors. |
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Bowmore 16 yo 2004 (55.2%, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, 2nd fill barrel, #3.321, ‘Deal with Your self!’, 160 bottles, +/-2021)
Love this identify, seems like they had been on an empty abdomen once they got here up with this one. Color: brilliant straw. Nostril: mercurochrome, smoked salmon, contact of antirust paint, backyard bonfire (a lot of leaves) and a tiny trace of juniper. Very good. Inexperienced gooseberries. With water: on the greener facet. Simply minimize grass, a tiny whiff of pinewood smoke. Mouth (neat): immaculate. Smoked gooseberries in lime juice. Extra tart fruits, much less chalky/coastal notes this time. With water: glorious, with surprising notes of thyme and rosemary. Provence herbs. End: slightly lengthy, salty, a tad leafier once more. Slightly gritty, with a number of inexperienced pepper. Coal and tar within the aftertaste, that is enjoyable. Slightly eucalyptus too. Feedback: an excellent cask, with pretty, delicate nuances. Deal with your self! (S., we’re floored).
SGP:367 – 87 factors. |
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5 is an efficient quantity. We’ll have extra tomorrow…
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