Bowmore 20 Years Old 2004/2024 Refill Hogshead Islay Sponge - Part 5 WhiskySponge 54.9% 700ml

Details：

Distillery: Bowmore

Bottler: WhiskySponge (WSP)

Bottling serie: Islay Sponge - Part 5

Vintage: 2004

Bottled: 2024

Stated Age: 20 Years Old

Casktype: Refill Hogshead

Casknumber: /

Number of bottles: 183

Strength: 54.9%

Size: 700ml

Tasting notes：

Nose: Beautiful peat with a whiff of smoke. Vanilla, bright pears, apples. Buttery mash potatoes and stewed daikon. Quite distinctively honeyed.

Palate: Burnt leaves, charcoal, peat smoke, ginseng roots, with this gorgeous layer of fruits underneath. Ripe apples, pineapples, Korean pears, even some lychees, and a hint of mangos. Lots of honeycomb. This is a very good Bowmore. Mouthfeel is oily and warming. While the fruits are in abundance, they still play second fiddle to the peat and smoke here. Somewhat metallic mid-palate onwards, along with some grapefruit pith. No need to add water -- they make the fruits disappear.

Finish: 91 points with water. 92 points without water.