A peat respite in our tasting vertical Bowmore 12 Year Old
Saltwater taffy on the nose. Colour is straight gold with a medium bodied. With some water the peat and iodine comes out stronger.
Saltwater taffy on the nose. Colour is straight gold with a medium bodied. With some water the peat and iodine comes out stronger.
Sweet candy-like nose, but otherwise very muted. Colour is bright sunlight with a medium body. Flavour is all iodine, tannin and peat.
Powerful nose of iodine, peat and paint thinner, becomes muted with a drop of water. Pale yellow colour, with medium body. Medicine-y at first bite, but with water focuses the flavours down to a rich…
Nose starts off absent, after a drop of water or much aeration it becomes eye-wateringly sharp and hot. Medium body, copper coloured. Starts with the oak and sweet port flavours on the tip of the tongue…
Smokey. Forest fire. Colour is a light copper and full bodied. Flavours are walnut and raisiny fruit completely coated in peat and smoke.
Nose of iodine, seaweed and gooseberry. Light-ish body with colour between Fino Sherry and Chardonnay with spicy oak and tannins and dark malt flavours on the finish.
Nose of sweet plum, barbados cherry and cwithmuth puddin'. Full bodied, and burnished gold in colour. Soft spiciness at the start with a warming finish with the flavours of earth, and turfiness.