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Intro:
"Bowmore 9 Year Old is the latest addition to the Islay favourite's core range. This entry-level whisky has spent all of its life maturing in a combination of bourbon and sherry casks, resulting in a rich whisky with notes of cocoa, dark fruits and crème caramel, along with Bowmore's trademark smoky backbone." - The Whiskey Exchange. So we have a young Bowmore with some time in a sherry cask. I'm wary, but interested. Let's see how it is.
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Nose:
Prune, apple, effervescent acetone. Plum, sweet floral note. Fake cherry and fake respberry. Fake fruit, almost gummy worm like.
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Taste:
Thin, no heat. Apricot, apple. Pear, light leather. Faint toffee. If there is peat, it is dim.
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Finish:
Short, a bit of heat. Apricot, sulfur, pepper, honey, vanilla.
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Overall:
Not great, not exceptional. Unremarkable, at the best.
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Score:
4
- Our in house critic rates spirits on a scale of 0-10 (10 best) and is aggregated the same as external sources
