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Piece Of Islay: The new Bowmore Duty-Free Single Malts

By Miguel in Bowmore

Yesterday Bowmore did a twitter tasting introducing their new (to me) Duty Free bottles: Black Rock, White Sands and Gold Reef.

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Ally Dickinson manned the twitter tasting with many fellow bloggers. One really interesting experience of this tasting was that it was paired with chocolate: little cocoa with crushed coffee beans and toffee filled chocolates.

Well, let’s taste them.

Bowmore Gold Reef

The first bottle of the night with a retail price of £59.99 for a one litre bottle.

“Very nice whisky. Just the perfect amount of peat on a malt with a lovely nose”

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Bowmore Gold Reef

This dram has a cooper-like color.

Nose (90): more than average. peat, honey, spices, citrus, vanilla.

Palate (89): smooth. peat, honey, lemon, wood, spices, salt, cinnamon.

Finish (89): longer than average. peat, honey, cocoa.

So based on other whiskies I have already tasted I rate this Bowmore Gold Reef with 89 points over 100.

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Bowmore White Sands

The next Bowmore in this tasting is White Sands that it has a RRP of £ 79.99 for a 70cl bottle.

“Quite spicy almost like a Talisker with a fantastic peat note. I am really enjoying these Bowmore”

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Bowmore White Sands

This dram has a amber-like color.

Nose (90): average. peat, honey, vanilla, citrus, toffee, apples, pinneaple.

Palate (90): powerful, oily. peat, honey, citrus, spices, salt, pepper, lemon.

Finish (90): longer than average. peat, citrus, wood.

So based on other whiskies I have already tasted I rate this Bowmore White Sands with 90 points over 100.

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Bowmore Black Rock

And finally the one with more sherry proportion of the three and with a RRP of £44.99

“Nice Bowmore with a touch of sherry that doesn't dominate a fantastic ex-bourbon-like Bowmore. Quite interesting”

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Bowmore Black Rock

This dram has a mahogany-like color.

Nose (91): more than average. peat, honey, dates, wood, leather, citrus, spices, salt.

Palate (90): powerful, oily. peat, honey, chocolate, citrus, salt, spices, pepper.

Finish (89): longer than average. peat, citrus, spices.

So based on other whiskies I have already tasted I rate this Bowmore Black Rock with 90 points over 100.

Miguel says…

A fantastic experience. The whiskies are all of them without age statements, much like most new releases nowadays, but at least they are pretty nice. None of them really stands over the others, but if you force me to choose one I would get the White Sands. The sherried one, Black Rock, is quite lightly sherried nothing to do with a peated sherry monster. A good thing for me.



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