I wonder if I haven't already tried this a couple years back. Anyway, lets have another swing at the sometimes overlooked Bowmore Distillery. This one must be more in the likes of the whisky they will produce in years to come? Young and at CS. I certainly hope the 12yo will remain. The color is golden. Not golden like that shiny adjusted golden. More like the grey-ish golden on old cutlery. It smells rather restrained, some peanut butter and peat. Caramel, banana syrup, shortbread, molasses, green bell peppers, honey, butter, fried banana. This smells0 strangely sweet, yet perfectly rich and honeyed. No peat or coastal notes at all. The taste is pungent, sweet chili sauce, mango, melons, sugar and pepper, barbecue hot sauce, dried red peppers, how weird can a Bowmore get. I'd guess this was some kind of strange south-american spirit. Sugared Cachaca or something. I can't wrap my head around it, lets add some water. Now it turns even sweeter, with some rubber, some shoe wax and even burnt sugar. A strange one indeed.
The more I had the less I wanted, I believe there were some strange Bowmores: 3.5
Next tasting: Glen Mhor Distillery
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