Bowmore Darkest

Overall rating: 84.89/100
votes: 920

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Bowmore
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Stated Age: 15 years old
Casktype: Bourbon + Oloroso Sherry Finish
Strength: 43.0 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml
Bottle code: L132495
Barcode: 5010496020821
Added on: 02 Jun 2007 1:23 pm

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€ 62,85

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Whisky Reviews for Bowmore Darkest

135 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 84.89 points

Misery scored this whisky 87 points
14 Mar 2019 4:14 pm

Bowmore Darkest 15 yo | 43% | 22 + 22 + 21 + 22 = 87pts
N: Sherry-berry mix, then peat, cinnamon, withered black berries, raisins, prunes, smoked meat.
T: Soft and tender, sweet and sour, berry, blueberry, black currant, a bit of sweet cherry, spicy spices and tender tart bitterness.
F: Peppermint, slightly bitter, diminishes slowly and gently, leaving pepper and burnt.
B: Excellent sherry peat. The barrel lay on the soft Bowmore's ayla just fine.
EinSpatzUnterVielen scored this whisky 85 points
10 Aug 2017 7:53 pm
You can taste the 3 year finish in the Oloroso barrel, the darkest is sweet and very fruity. The Bowmore Lemon and the Smoke nicely balance each other with the Oloroso flavors. I think it's delicious. Only the color does not have to be. Good PLV.

Nose

slight sulfur at the first sniffing, but this flies almost completely after 2 minutes, mild campfire smoke, sweet raisins, dark chocolate, vanilla, plum jam with cinnamon, leather, sweet tobacco, maritime touch

Taste

sweet, orange, blackberries, dark chocolate, glides over in espresso, in the background the Bowmore lemon, leather, maggi, burnt popcorn, caramel, vanilla, dark cherries, red apples, salt, pepper, cinnamon, roasted hazelnuts. Gets sweeter and more fruity with each sip, pepper continues to build up.

Finish

sweet and spicy, warming, orange, lemon, campfire smoke becomes a little stronger, apples and blackberries, vanilla is stronger, then still ripe banana appears; in the end something menthol
HammerHead scored this whisky 83 points
06 Apr 2016 9:28 pm
Nose is pretty interesting with some toffee, caramel, speculaas (cinnamon, nutmeg) and a little smoke, although it's also a bit 'artificial' and lacks some power. This absence of power becomes all the more clear in the taste and development. It just tastes very thin. This should have been bottled at a much higher strength (i.e. 50+%), and preferably without chill filtering and colouring.
Finish is quite ok, with a lot of dark chocolate and sherry fruits and a little smoke.
- Nose
  
  85 85
- Taste
  
  82 82
- Finish
  
  84 84
Gloin scored this whisky 89 points
20 Dec 2014 2:19 am
Nose

some smoke, red fruits, sherry

Taste

little smoke, red fruits, sherry, pleasant sweetness, less creamy than Laga DE

Finish

long, dry on the palate and on the tongue, sweet in the throat
amann1 scored this whisky 85 points
14 Oct 2019 4:13 pm
The whole philosophizing about whether the name "Darkest" makes sense, although Bowmore is known to color ... so what ...
The whole argument over whether the 15y without the name addition Darkest is now the same or not .... so what ...
Here you get in any case - especially at the PLV! - a really great whisky. For me but not quite as good as the 18y.

Nose

86 86

Taste

85 85

Finish

83 83
nallacam scored this whisky 83 points
22 Sep 2019 8:40 pm
Quite successful but something to "mass suitable" manufactured. In cask strength, he could certainly be a highlight.

Nose

87 87

Chocolate Sweet, dried fruits, rose hip, hibiscus, plum compote, light peat, a fairly mild but fine nose

Taste

82 82

Here it breaks down, in particular by the weak 43%, barely complex, cold smoke, matches, and here it is also clear in terms of taste that the color is not on tap ...

Finish

81 81

medium
mer1973 scored this whisky 85 points
13 Aug 2019 2:32 pm
Nose

87 87

Taste

85 85

Finish

84 84
Captain.Islay scored this whisky 86 points
28 Jul 2019 8:32 pm
Some fruit and light smoke, unfortunately a bit watered down by the 43%. A tasty malt with sherry influence, light body and maritime touch.

Nose

87 87

Light smoke, mint, oranges, dried plum, fresh leather, Oloroso

Taste

85 85

slightly watery, ginger, orange, grapes

Finish

85 85

Short, smoke, orange, dry
el Gato scored this whisky 85 points
28 May 2019 11:31 pm
Nose

86 86

Burnt rubber. Strawberries. Marzipane. Chocolate, rhubarb, campher

Taste

85 85

Full bodies. Cherry. Burnt notes. Salty notes. Strawberries

Finish

85 85

Quite long. Blueberries. Maple cyrup. Spicy notes. Quite ashy
M134481 scored this whisky 84 points
14 Apr 2019 9:43 pm
An accessible whisky with a slightly smoky accent.

Nose

83 83

Dried fruit, vanilla, green apple, raisins, wood and chocolate. Also very light in terms of alcohol, almost as light as water.

Taste

84 84

light smoke, fruit, sherry, vanilla, chocolate, caramel, pear, green apple and wood.

Finish

84 84

Fruity, pear and green apple, chocolate, wood and vanilla.

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