Tastes

Stone fruits and honey some citrus than malted candy with green pepper and some youthful burn. A decent bottle but I doubt I will buy it again.

A full in your face ardbeg tuned to 11. It had an odd seaweed soy sauce tang that mellowed out after it had been necked. Salt some lemon but a dry butterscotch sweetness and a med peat on the nose. The pallet is long and complex. Sweet lemon Citrus that swirls into a drying peat and peppered high proof goodness.

Candied raisins salt water and campfire ashiness. The taste is full and hot on the mid pallet reminding you that it is full proof. Sherry is up front but well incorporated with the delicious peat that Ardbeg a s know for. Cola and salt and limestone rocks come forward as the bottle goes down and ages.

Just cracked open and the nose is all a garlic tang reminiscent of good moonshine and cracked pepper with a hint of peat. The taste in the biggest departure from the nose staying true to ardbed, sweet and peat, only vegetal and more salt than other ardbegs with Girl Scout thin mints and a hint of hickory.

This is a welcome well balance hot fudge banana nut with some salt and a hint of smoke and ginger cola.

A delicious yellow batter birthday cake with hints of lemon salt and Demerara sugar, all with a scrumptious peat backbone. The palate is viscous and almost no burn while finish is long and delicious. I am excited to see how this bottle transitions.

A decent dram for the price. The typical style of Bowmore just ruff around the edges with more of a burnt char through out.

Wow, varnish and banana. Subtle spicy wood caramel and bitter tannins with a bruised banana flavor on the nose and pallet. Definitely worth a try especially mixed with coke. At the end of the bottle varnish subsides to a subtle dried nuts, cherry and delicious banana and vanilla. The finish is smooth with a hint of barrel spice. A great whiskey I will go back to.

A solid dram smooth and rich tropical cantaloupe and a peated finish. When the bottle goes down the peat all but vanishes and Caramel becomes the added touch not much salt or sherry just a great blended malt.

Not enough change to justify the price. The typical Dalwhinnie with; peat, honey and cereal malt. Well in the background is a bit of butterscotch, salt and hint of fruit. Not a bad dram but not worth the cost.