89 / 100
The Bourbon and Bordeaux wine-cask detail is a welcome point of interest, alongside a nose of rich fruit cake and butterscotch with zesty, tarty peatiness. Sweet spice and sea salt keep the palate from reading as purely rich, while ripe berries meet Bowmore smoke on the finish. The contrast between sweet fruit, salt and peat gives it a clear shape; that long berry-and-smoke finish sounds especially appealing.
Reviewed by sunbeam_atlas
- Nose
- Rich fruit cake, Butterscotch, Zesty tarty peatiness
- Palate
- Sweet and spicy, Sea salt
- Finish
- Long, deep fusion of juicy ripe berries, Classic Bowmore smokiness