Bowmore 1988 SMWS 3.90 Smoke and Heather

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Bowmore
Bottler	The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1988
Bottled Year	2004
Age	15년
Cask Type	-
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	54.4%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Smoky

Sweet

Oaky

Peaty

Vanilla

Maritime

Creamy

Spicy

Honey

Fruity

Dried Fruit

Floral

Nutty

Citrus

Herbal

Chocolate

Tasting Notes

Colour

amber

air Nose

well me like. A Christmassy spiciness, cloves, oranges and all that, on a lot of tobacco, heavily smoked salmon, then bicycle inner tubes and a few drops of walnut wine. Works well so far. With water: some kind of rather lovely pipe tobacco. And dried porcinis galore! And cured ham! We’re almost in an old trattoria somewhere in Italy

restaurant Palate

big creamy gingery and pastissy (!) arrival, with all things oaky and spicy at the same time forward. Caraway, aniseed, ginger, sandalwood, ultra-infused herbal teas, more pastis, even absinth… and all that. This is huge and not quite ‘whisky’ in my book, but that’s only me and I rather like it, since balance has been found, in my opinion. With water: it got even bigger, concentrated and extractive, with many spices. Alsatian (or German) Christmas spice cake, spicy Christstollen…

timer Finish

very long, maybe a notch too gingery and oaky. Speculoos and bitter oranges

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