Heather honey, bananas, peaches, pineapple, vanilla, butterscotch — tropical aged Islay
Tropical fruits with honey sweetness, subtle peat smoke, hints of eucalyptus — 30 years of patience
Mouth-warming with ripe fruits lingering — Islay's oldest at its most refined
Bowmore 30 — 1989 distilled. Sherry + bourbon. 2,580 bottles worldwide. 45.3%.
Heather honey and tropical fruit nose. Honey-sweet palate with subtle peat. Warming ripe fruit finish. Aged Islay.
Bowmore 30 earns a 9 — meets and exceeds at £2200. Luxury collector territory. Three decades from Islay's oldest.
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