I haven’t tried much if any Bowmore since visiting the distillery in 2017. I really enjoyed staying in the cottages and the tour was excellent. The distillery has a long tradition and was even used as a divisional headquarters during the Second World War. Today though there is a certain negativity in its reception from […]
Bowmore 15 Years Old Laimrig
I think I have mentioned this before but while I love islay whiskies and indeed the island there is one distillery which I have always struggled to connect with. Bowmore has for me always clashed with my palate for some reason. There is a strong brine-y aspect to the underlying spirit which is perhaps too […]
Bowmore 12 Year Old
Sometimes a blog can be stuffed full of exotic releases which are either too expensive or too sold out for anyone to make any use of. What people sometimes want to see is a quick reference to the widely available and widely discounted single malts which could be a potential impulse buy while standing in […]
Bowmore 1964: New Boiler delivery
In 1964 Bowmore had delivered a new boiler from Renfrew just outside of Glasgow. The plan was to use the Royal Navy to delivery the boiler and part of a new still to the island from their base in Rhu during a May Bank Holiday. The route was to be as below: A short […]
Bowmore Small Batch
With a traditional bitter west of Scotland January weather starting to set in I was time to finish off an Islay bargain. The Distillery Bowmore distillery is on the Isle of Islay at coast in the village of Bowmore. It was the first distillery on the island being founded in 1779. As with so many […]
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