O.K. I've read the threads. I've pined through the FWP, and PLOWED through pastures of peaty prose.
But Elm Grove Liquor still has the Bowmore Dawn, Bowmore Dusk, and Bowmore Darkest on sale at $29.99 (I passed through today and picked up their last bottle of 15-year-old Mariner for that same price).
Are any of them actually worth getting?
I dunno Douglas, from your taste in whisky I'd be surprised if any of them were to your liking. I myself wouldn't buy any of them based on recent memory but if I had a pick of one (for free), it would be the Bowmore Dawn as the finish is pretty nice. I think the archives document my thoughts on the Dusk and the Darkest... well, I've not come across one that wasn't littered with the smell of bathroom freshener and just to reinforce my feelings, Davin recently brought over some Darkest that he keeps on hand for those who don't believe in FWP... not that I needed convincing or anything.
But there must be some great Darkest out there that hasn't yet reached these North America. I had lunch with Jim McEwan last month and when I asked him what he keeps on hand at home for personally dramming, he shocked me by announcing Bowmore Darkest (and Scapa btw). I think he knows whisky and I think he knows what he's talking about... so perhaps I should have asked him to send me a sample of what passes for Bowmore Darkest on Islay.
Johanna
them were to your liking. ...
Well I got the Mariner (15 yrs) and I am in a love/hate battle with it. I love the ACTION, but what I find consternating is this layer of goofy flavoring that weighs in before the peat. It's like they they ran the soon-to-be-bottled whisky from a claret barrel to a sherry barrel to a port pipe and then gently whispered the incantation, "FWP, FWP" over it in order to make up the thin time on the palate before the ordinarily very nice Bowmore peat hits. The whisky is certainly INTERESTING, and it is smooth and long enough, and I keep gravitating back to it only to grapple with it again, but it still seems more like a single malt whisky PRODUCT than a single malt whisky. I can't even start to think about Dawn, Dusk, Darkest at this point.
Pardon me for asking, but would someone please explain FWP for me?
Thanks, Rob
Bogey man, very real to some but to others like myself filed under unicorns, leprechauns etc etc :-)
They are all worth drinking but my preferred order is:
Bowmore 17 Bowmore 12 Bowmore Dusk Bowmore Darkest Bowmore Legend
Darkest are fine sherry casks, well worth 30! closer to 60-70 at the present EUR/$ rate over here i wish i could mail order from the states...
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