Bowmore 1990 DR Individual Cask Bottling
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Bowmore |
| Bottler | A.D. Rattray (DR) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1990 |
| Bottled Year | 2005 |
| Age | 16년 |
| Cask Type | Bourbon Barrel |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 54.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
much more wood influence (it was a remade hogshead) here and much more maturing. Starts on apple skin, cider, smoked tea, butter and develops on notes of cigar box and all sorts of herbal teas as well as soft spices. Again, this one gets smokier with time, and it’s beautiful smoke. Gets then quite mineral and meaty at the same time (coal, smoked ham, flints). Probably more complex than the BBR and more ‘intellectual’
restaurant Palate
quite smoother but certainly not tamed and certainly quite salty. Salted tea with yak butter? Gets quite ‘green’ after that, with again notes of old walnuts, very strong tea, very bitter chocolate (like 90% cocoa), bitter oranges… Quite some smoke of course, green leaves… Gets extremely dry but in a very, very nice way and the finish is long, perfectly smoky and dry, on un-sugared Turkish coffee (with the bits) and hints of mustard. Superbly austere and dry if you like that as much as I do. 87 points . Bowmore 16 yo 1990/2006 (53.8%, OB, sherry matured) A new version after the 1989 from last year – or was it two years ago?