Bowmore 18-year-old Deep & Complex - Year of the Dragon Edition

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Bowmore
Bottler	Distillery Bottling
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	-
Bottled Year	2024
Age	18년
Cask Type	Oloroso & Pedro Ximenez Sherry
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	43.0%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Fruity

Oaky

Sweet

Smoky

Vanilla

Honey

Creamy

Dried Fruit

Citrus

Spicy

Chocolate

Floral

Herbal

Peaty

Nutty

Maritime

Tasting Notes

Colour

full gold

air Nose

a nose that's extremely 'sweet', jammy, as if they would have used sherry plus rechar. A lot of beeswax and manuka honey (boy that got expensive), toasted oak, some caraway liqueur or aquavit, a small gamey side (grouse), some Spanish ham, cigarette tobacco, muscovado, marmalade, plus, as I had already noticed last time in 2017 (2017! Scandal!), echoes of Lagavulin 16. Must be a very specific kind of peat + sherry combination

restaurant Palate

a great batch, a great whisky, even if this amontillado-type of dryness might not be for strictly everyone. Stunning smoked toffee, milk jam, butterscotch, pipe tobacco, spicy beef soup, bitter oranges…

timer Finish

only the finish is a tad drying. Wonderful salty, meaty aftertaste though. Biltong. Coriander leaves, picante pizza oil, maraschino (really, there's something Italian to this one)

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