Bowmore 10 Year A Marriage of Finest Oloroso Sherry and Wine Casks

N: peat, smoky barbecue, campfire, bacon, jammy dark, red fruits and chocolate P: black pepper and salted barbecue meat, gentle smoke, red wine, blackberry, plum F: rich, full bodied with a long and very pleasing finish What an absolute unit of a whisky! Thank you to my friend from work who was kind enough to give me a sample of this beauty! It has a beautiful balance between the salty and savoury meat flavours, the gentle sweetness of the red wine fruity flavours and the alluring peat smoke. A shame that they don’t produce this anymore but if anyone has a chance to try it I’d highly recommend it!

Bowmore has grown in me. I started this whisky journey thinking of this distillery as a "light, boring islay dram", but lately i have been tasting some bery nice expressions that are truly worthy. Having said that, they have exploited the "devil's casks" story quite a lot. They just recently release a super expensive collection called "no corners to hide" which tells the same story of Bowmore's devil who ran from a circular church into the destillery and then proceeded to hide in varios casks. An actually this one is part of that story. Called "the Devil's Cask INSPIRED", this single malt is a 10yo bowmore, matured in oloroso sherry and red wine casks. Bottled at 46%abv, with a lovely red color. On the nose, lots of aroma notes that you love. Rum, molasses, lemon, bacon, smokey merthiolate and camphor. Plastic, grapes, winey, latex, salt and tobacco. After a first sip, the aroma went more complex, releasing chilli, a heathery peat and chocolate. On the palate, it is a red wine. Cabernet sauvignon, prunes, plums, very oily. Dark chocolate with salt. Blackberries. Delicious stuff. Aftertaste is where the peat is. A smokey barbecue, peppery, earthy. There is this wine profile but surrounded with salt and metallic notes. Smoked salmon and sowing land. Overall this is a fantastic whisky, not overly expensive and easy to find in a travel retail store. I believe that Bowmore's spirit is made to be matured in wine and sherry casks, there is where they have really impressed me. A lovely whisky, super balanced and flavorful, my score for it is a sweet 96 over 100.

An amazing sangria wine with a peated bonfire whisky. Love it!!! My favorite peated whisky nose till now near ardbeg uigeandail. In nose i find Olorosso notes, peat, bonfires, red fruits, home chocolate,a mix of jam fruits. A watery feel in taste with some red orange notes, blackberry jam,earthy peated notes, sangria spanish wine! The finish is long and smooth with bonefire flavour, cooked fruit like marmalade and shy wine tanins. Bowmore.. you created a masterpiece!