Bowmore Enigma 12yo

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How the heck should we know? It's you drinking the stuff - you tell us! Anders

Don't worry--Anders was actually being jocular and good-natured and was just playfully encouraging you to share your experience!

I only saw the Enigma for the first time two weeks back at London duty-free (I've haven't seen it yet here in the States), and the World of Whisky salesperson said it was a sherry-casked expression of Bowmore 12. I didn't get one because the price wasn't as good as the Ardmore 14 (pleasant peat but just a bit frail in the long run) and the Miltonduff 10 (wonderfully fruity, bright, and assertive even at 40%), both from Gordon&McPhail--but I was really curious about it. I'm not a fan of my Bowmore Darkest from two years back (also a sherry-casked thingie), so that might have kept me away too. I hope you enjoy yours!

Arh right. In that case I shouldn't have come back like that....sry. Humor on usenet is.....ehm.....challenging.

Yep...I got the sort of same explanation. The Bowmore Darkest - once a favourit of mine - is finished a year or so, in sherry casks, while the Enigma spends it's entire time growing up in sherry casks. I guess they use a lighter sort of sherry for the enigma, than they do for the Darkest(?).

So far I have only had the tastesample given to me at the airport, but the Enigma surprised me....it's quite fullbodied, round and keeps lingering......spiced with that wonderful smokey Islay punch in the end.

I'm looking forward to the time when it feels right to open it.

BR

Stig

mmmmm. You've got me convinced.

I can be in Denmark in...14 hours. Meet me at the airport?