54,8°
Distillery : Bowmore - Islay
1st Fill Sherry Butt Finish
Independent Bottling
By La Maison du Whisky
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2022
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Peated around 25 ppm
This new Bowmore produced by La Maison du Whisky echoes the
previous ones, Artist #7 but especially Artist #8 which followed a
similar maturation. On the other hand, not a word about the first
maturation, I guess that it is a Bourbon barrel, but I would have preferred a little transparency. 665
bottles are on sale, adorned with an illustration by Gesine Arps, which gives this range an artistic identity.
Let's Taste It :
Very chiselled nose, between a fairly dry Sherry and a pronounced iodine. Dried fruits, raisins, apricots, cashew nuts, maritime fragrances, sea spray, kelp, seaweed, fish. Apple crumble, genoise, with herbal and earthy notes. Oily on the palate, seawater, oysters, shellfish, and a few sweet fruits, chocolate pear, lychee. Almonds, toffee. Soft spices, paprika, cardamom. It's warm, black tea, clove. Very long finish, gently explosive, spicy, coaly, amplified by hints of liquorice and banana. Chicory. Nutmeg.
In Short,
A very nice bottling, which seduced me. The Sherry brings a magnificent complexity to a Bowmore whose identity is tremendously clear, very iodized
and maritime. It is beautiful work. The price,
on the other hand, is absolutely apoplectic. At first, I thought it was a
joke, but no.
Score : 90
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Deep Sea Diver - Wide Awake
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