Bowmore Golden & Elegant 15-year-old /43%/ 1.0l
- In the early 2017 Bowmore Distillery replaced its entire Travel Retail range with three exclusive bottlings marking the company return to age statements so much appreciated by many whisky drinkers.
Product description
In early 2017, Bowmore Distillery introduced three new whiskies to its Travel Retail offering:
Dark & Intense, Golden & Elegant and Deep & Complex, each made from distillates aged in a different type of barrel, each also bearing an age statement that is so important to some whisky lovers. They replaced the Black Rock, Gold Reef, White Sands and Springtide editions. The Golden & Elegant presented here is a whisky aged in first-fill bourbon barrels for at least 15 years and bottled at 43% ABV. Bowmore Distillery has been operating since 1779 and is currently owned by Beam Suntory. Its production capacity is 2 million liters of distillate per year.
Aroma: fresh and elegant, delicate notes of peat and iodine, vanilla, honey, salted caramel, lemons, peaches, bananas, apples, traces of tobacco and leather.
Palate: rich and well-balanced, honey, vanilla, golden syrup, salted nuts, oranges, bananas, a handful of herbs, a hint of oak and distant smoky notes.
Finish: quite long, with notes of citrus, vanilla, sea salt, a pinch of spices and peat smoke in the background.