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

Vanilla

Sweet

Oaky

Honey

Fruity

Creamy

Dried Fruit

Spicy

Citrus

Smoky

Chocolate

Herbal

Floral

Nutty

Peaty

Maritime

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?

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