Bowmore ( Official) - Enigma - 12 y.o. - 40,0%
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- Bottler:
- Official
- Age:
- 12 years
- Alcohol:
- 40,0%
- Bottle details:
- Sherry
- average
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- (83,02)
- price class:
4 notes disponibles en français
Henrik Johansson
Date of tasting: 27/9 2007
Apperance: Mahogany brown or dark copper
Nose: Pleasantly rounded and balanced. Warm and sherried with just a touch of peat smoke. Complex, winey and floral notes, woody and fresh. Perfume, mown hay and some tar. Fruit notes become dryer in reduced dram while nutmeg and vanilla notes are revealed. Overall very rich. Body: Light to medium
Palate: Round and full. Fruity notes. Middle is sort of sulphury and quite rich.
Finish reveals some peat. Well balanced, sherried sweetness.
2009Johannes_Sauer
Colour: Reddish brown, dark gold (Coloured).
Nose: Nice, musty peat, combined with dried plums. A delicate light honey sweetness together with unripe fruits, cigar tobacco and suede leather. Very agreeable ingredients but the notes seem a little weak like behind a curtain of dark fruity sweetness.
Taste: The curtain mentioned in the nose rises and reveals a very delicate peaty note together with a nice fruitiness, with licorice, whalenuts, dried and fresh green apples.
Finish: Long and getting gradually more and more dry while showing many different aspects of cigar ash. At the very end there are echoes of still unripe fruits mixing in the smoky clouds.
Conclusion: This is a very fine Bowmore, perfectly balanced twixt peat and fruits at a very reasonable price. A perfect beginner’s entrance to the world of peat.
Date: 28. February 2011
Price in Germany: 33 Euro / Litre
2011
A light bitterness, walnut smell, discrete and very pleasant wood, dry fruit and a touch of plum behind a veil of sherry. Smoke and salt.
The mouth is first rather bitter but develops slowly from hazelnut notes to more woody ones through nice fruity touches, prolonging perfectly the nose impressions. Some discrete peaty hints as well.
The finish is rather long and fresh. Hazelnut remains present.
2009A nice fresh nose, between cut grass and ripe fruit (from peach to plum). A touch of smoke. Nice announced complexity.
The first mouth is both acid (green apple, unripe fruit) and slightly bitter (cashew nut). This bitterness seems to get the upper hand, developing on plum jam fragrances. A nice contrast with the nose.
The finish is lingering and this plum jam impression is fulfilled with remote chocolate hints.
This was a blind tasting, The bottle is opened since many months, and apparently, all reference to peat has gone, but the general appreciation is not affected. It looks like aeration has deeply changed this whisky, making another one of it... but with an equal level of quality.
2009The nose reveals nice marine but however sugared notes, mixing some toffee hints with nice smoly ones.
In the palate, the dry peat is clearly present, contrasting with delicious sweet citrus fruit ones. Sweet, as this hints are not too acid. A lovely finish, with clear memories of citrus and some kind of bitterness on the background.
2005
