[Quick Review] Bowmore 30 years old - The Dalswinton Series II (Claxton's)

 


The last one from Claxton's Spirits and The Dalswinton’s Series second edition is maybe the one I’ve been excited the most: a 30 year-old Bowmore!

It was distilled in 1992, aged in an Oloroso Sherry cask and bottled at 43.5%.


Distillery: Bowmore

Bottler: Claxton's

Age: 30 years old

Distilled: 17/09/1992

Bottled: 2024

Cask: Oloroso Sherry cask

Abv: 43.5%

Unchillfiltered: Yes

Natural Colour: Yes

Nb of bottles: 

Price: £

Extra: Part of the Dalswinton Series - Second Edition


My tasting notes:


Nose: The nose is coastal, gently peaty and wrapped in tropical fruit sweetness. There is seaweed and iodine, camphor, slight BBQ meat (smoked bacon), grassy/earthy smoke, lemon, a touch of toasted oak and some vanilla. On the nose, the Oloroso cask is not the most obvious. It smells more like a bourbon cask. I’m a fan!


Palate: The palate is sweeter than the nose let on, with some chewy caramel, more Bowmore tropical fruit, vanilla, coastal peat smoke, hints of red fruit and liquorice, a little oak spice, some sultana and even a bit of candy-floss!


Finish: The finish is long and warming. Some nutmeg, wood dust, almond, ash, sweet smoke. Quite drying too and there is also a faint touch of eucalyptus in the background.


With water: A few drops of water add some vanilla extract and honey glaze on the bacon to the nose, the palate gets more toffee but seems to lose some of the extra notes which were kicking around neat, the finish becomes a little mintier with slightly less peat smoke. I prefer it without water.


The last dram from the Dalswinton Series, and the one I was most excited about, this Bowmore is very good but somehow left me wanting a little more from it. I would be very curious to try the Bowmore 1992 from Claxton’s first Dalswinton Series aged in a Bourbon Hogshead and compare it to this one!


So which one would I pick out of the 5 releases? Well I thoroughly enjoyed tasting all of them. But if I had to choose it would probably be between Clynelish, Bunnahabhain and Springbank… and Springbank first, then Bunna and Clynelish.


Slàinte all!


Thanks again to @claxtonsspirits for the sample.

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