The heart of the Bowmore range, the 12 year old exhibits some beautiful coastal notes with a gentle peat, it is the balance that the floral element presents that makes this a great entry bottling for Bowmore.
Coastal smoke and ash soon make way for bergamot, orange zest, lemon slices and some hay before becoming rather floral, heather smoke now competing with the ash.
Lovely and rounded, honeyed even, initially. Vanilla, perfumed smoke and coastal elements develop. Dark Peat. Blossom, oily sweetness.
Smoky and long. Sea spray, dry grass, a touch of ash and citrus.
Classic stuff and the heart of the Bowmore range. Smoky, fruity, coastal, delicious.
Recently had a bottle of Bowmore No1 and very nice too. Noticed the 12 year old had discounted heavily so purchased a bottle. Very nice too as the Sun rises after 6 nightshifts. Have had Laphroig, Lagavuilin and of course Ardbeg. This is very mellow.
I unfortunately paid $57 plus tax for this in my area. I was debating between trying this or Ardbeg Ueigedal. Boy do I feel like an idiot! There are so many better options in and under this price range. It's okay, but it lacks body. I agree with other reviews that it's thin and the smoke is artificial tasting. It's just not that interesting, and I get heartburn after drinking this almost every time (not so with other good whisky). Lagavulin 16 is a wonderful Islay--try that if you haven't and you like peat. This tastes like a dollar store generic version of an Islay whisky. I read one glowing review about this somewhere. Last time I'll trust an online opinion (I should've read more reviews). Now I have to either drink it and try to like it more or give it away.
Didn't much like it at first. The smoky/peat tasted too much like liquid smoke. Came back to it about a week later and those flavours seemed less pronounced. Not a bad bottle, but I won't be going back to the well
First single malt I drank in years. Better than what I drank years ago. I normally drink beer or bourbon. Stuff the majority here looks down upon. As for this whisky's the taste is like mentioned on the bottle which is awesome regarding the heavy smokey taste at first. I agree with the reviewer before me. Lots of people with no taste seek that in whiskey?
If you are completely new to peated whisky, you have no business reviewing this. I am so tired of seeing people say they don’t like this and they give it a bad rating and say “acquired taste” if you haven’t acquired the taste of peat then you have no business reviewing it.
