Description
Fruity, fresh and slightly perfumed. A tropical fruit cocktail with a hint of mojito. Sugar-coated peaty pineapple chunks and juicy pear drops.
Bowmore
Bowmore So wonderfully close, yet so wonderfully far! 17 Year Old, Bourbon Cask, Cask #3.339, 2004, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, 57.1%
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TypeSingle Malt Whisky
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Change-13.5%
LatestSGD 277
HighSGD 320
LowSGD 277
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- Region
- Islay
- Age
- 17 Years
- Vintage
- 2004
- Bottled
- 2021
- ABV
- 57.1%
- Volume
- 70cl
- Distillery
- Bowmore
- Origin
- Scotland
- Cask type
- Bourbon Cask
- Bottling
- Independent Bottling - The Scotch Malt Whisky Society
- Peated
- Peated
- Single cask
- Yes
- Non-chill filtered
- N.A
- Cask origin
- N.A
- Cask no.
- 3.339
- Batch
- N.A
- PPM
- N.A
- Barley
- N.A
- Fermentation
- N.A
- Master distiller (bottling)
- N.A
- Master distiller (distillation)
- N.A
- Limited edition
- Yes
- Bottle count
- 201
- Has box
- Yes
- Closure
- N.A
- Presentation
- N.A
- Series highlights
- So Wonderfully Close, Yet So Wonderfully Far
- Historical context
- N.A
- Special release
- N.A
- Allocation
- N.A
- Nose
- Leads with lime (a mix of regular and Makrut) with some leafy smoke running through it. On the second sniff there's some charred pineapple and just a hint of something sweeter (peach? passionfruit?). The musky fruit expands as it sits even as the smoke gets ashier; a touch of vanilla but it dissipates quickly. A few drops of water push the smoke back a bit and pull out wet stones. Then the sweeter fruit expands, bringing some custard with it.
- Palate
- Comes in with the musky fruit: pineapple, peach, passionfruit—all of them charred. Approachable at full strength with nice texture. More lime on the second sip. With time the lime recedes a bit and lets the other fruit out more fully. Okay, time for water. Hmmm water seems to re-emphasize the lime on the palate. Yes, definitely more acidic here with water, thought the wet stones that emerged on the nose are here as well.
- Finish
- Long. The passionfruit trumps the other fruit here, picking up pepper as it goes. More acidic here too with time but gets sweeter again at the end (maybe a bit too sweet).