Whisky review : Bowmore 18years old bottled @ 43%

Whisky review : Bowmore 18years old bottled @ 43%

-same old bottling
-only 43%...commercial...commercial...

Colour: dark coppery tones....half cask half caramel ?, oily, very long legs.

Nose: sweet caramel, lurking peat, light ashes, old cave humidity, wet rocks, ether, liquor sweet, cigarette touches. Very interesting nose here.

Mouth: Peat, turns to ''aerial'' brine stuck in a old-style-rock-sandy-basement, medicinal oils, beer hop, touches of smokes, peated caramel, distant misty ashes-smoke shadow.....

Finish: hope, bitter tea notes, peat, caramel, butched cigar in beer....yeah sounds weird...but is interesting !

B++ for the taste.
D for the price. Goes for 147$ (SAQ) or 126.95 (LCBO)..need I say more ? No No No. Above 90$...I would refuse just to look at it.
B for presentation. Same bottling...where is the charm ?

*Retaste Octobre 10 2013*

Colour : Heavy sherry cask influence

Nose: sweet peat, cave moss, wet wood, more touches of peat, wood dust, sweet notes

Mouth: humid peat in a mossy cave, sherry spices, herbs, cut and wet grass, peat, touches of brine. A very steady malt for sure.

Finish: light lingering peat, bitter notes as well.

A remark here : this was a freshly opened bottle, hence, the tasting notes may be off as the spirit sometimes need to oxidize a bit.


B+ for the taste. Same old...
D for the price.
C+ for presentation...please change the label at least !