A cask strength, non-chill filtered Bowmore? Sign me up. I’m expecting that this will be of a quality more like their IBs than OBs, though they’ve been fine to me thus far and I think that might have been more of a period of the distillery than how they put bottles together, some of them, anyway. Going into this blind, I think I stand a better chance with this than a normal taste to avoid bias. Let’s see how this one is.
Minutia: Enjoyed neat in a glencairn.
Color: Russet muscat, 1.3.
Nose: Very smoky at first. Fruity funk. Alcohol. Some kind of grain (like a cereal, not a presence of grain alcohol).
Taste: Very welcoming smokiness, pepper.
Finish: Peppery peat, medium-long.
Guess: Peated Bruichladdich, high proof. Could be an IB.
Wow, I was not expecting this to be Bowmore. I’ve not yet had the chance to try a Bowmore IB, but I’m guessing this gets closer to that being cask strength. I wasn’t itching to find out what it was to go out and buy a case, but this was really a nice dram.
Score: 85
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