icsteel154
Bowmore 1998 (Duncan Taylor, Whiskies of Scotland)
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed
July 18, 2021 (edited July 19, 2021)
£70 for a 200ml bottle
Nose: Burnt plastic, rubber, menthol, hot
Palate: Rubber, tyres, salty, mineral, woody
Finish: Medium long finish. Tree bark, very dry and dusty on the finish.
This is a burnt plastic, rubber tyre and tannic dry dram. Not my taste profile at all.
Distilled: 1998
Bottled: 2021
70.0
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@cascode I’ll keep an eye out for that one. I’ve not tried any of the Tempest releases.
Yes, same here. The last Bowmore that engaged me was Tempest Batch 6, which was a viscious beast of a malt, but very interesting. That was the last Bowmore I bought, about 4 years ago. It's just been the odd tasting sample and event dram since then.
@cascode True. I often find it either over engineered and characterless or just burnt and unpleasant. You get the occasional gem, but it’s a whisky I’ve become a little wary of buying on spec.
Another Bowmore failure 🙁 It happens too often.