---

Colour: Bright straw, light greenish.
Nose: Old school. Like some peaty northern highlander might taste in my fantasy from what I read in descriptions of Brora (I tried once a dram of the Diageo Bottling and was rather disappointed). This is a beautiful and very complex nose anyway: Nifty peat, powerful smoke, hefty oakwood. Soft spices, cooked porridge with cinamon. Also soft floral notes like wet grass and brown leaves in an autumn forest. The alcohol not too dominating but for sure nearly 60% cannot be denied anyway.
Taste: Old school. Somewhat similar to the “Traditional Bottling” of Glenmorangie or a peaty Campbeltown. Very robust but fine and well drinkable without water. Spiced porridge with dark clouds of smoke. With water more chemical notes but those are combined well with raw vegetables and fine soup herbs like parsley, dill and lovage (in German they say Liebstöckel or Maggikraut) but there’s also brown sugar and beet syrup.
Finish: Old school... Long and very enjoyable for every peat lover. Milked mocca combined with vegetable stew mixing with smoke. A nice bitter note lingering on and on.
Conclusion: This is a Bowmore I enjoy very much unlike the regular expressions which I always found too perfumed and heavily sherried. Here you can enjoy a Bowmore how it might have tasted long time ago.
Date: 28. February 2011
Price in Germany: 39 Euro (bought on Cöpenicker Whisky Herbst in 2010 )
2011