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Bowmore 12

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Updated: Nov 6, 2020

It's a chilly but cloudless evening here on May 30th 2020 in Southern Ontario. As we sit and drink these comforting beverages the hues shift from warm reds and oranges to cold dark blues and grays. The wandering moths make their appearance and the mosquitoes thirst for blood.


We're tasting Bowmore 12 today. Simon's pick. To join him are Scott Van Schyndel, Kyle Rasksen, and Sean Laffan.


Let's start off with some honesty, since this is the first post. We've done Scotch tastings before. We've visited distilleries. We've been drinking neat for a decade. We have fancy scotch tasting glasses. We are not qualified scotch specialists. We bring an amateur perspective that other amateurs can relate to and make better decisions about their investments. We've also got several pallets here, so the tasting notes and opinions that we all agree on you will likely agree with as well.


So let's get to Bowmore 12.


One thing that we personally want to get out this blog is a handle on classic recipes. We want to talk about Bowmore 12, Laphroig 10, Lagavulin 16, Highland Park 12, and so on, like we know what we're talking about. Hence, many of our initial posts will be classic bottles.


Simon points to a soft lingering spice in the middle of the tongue. It's not overpowering and it doesn't hit you deep in the throat like some scotches and bourbons do. Kyle, Scott, and Sean agree.


It's a very balanced scotch, it has a little bit of everything you want in a scotch, a little smoke, a little peat, a little sweet, a little spice. The experts call the sweetness vanilla but we all have a hard time finding it. Our pallets are agreeing more on a caramel sweetness.


Kyle calls it a smooth, easy drink. We all agree.


Scott gets some fruit on the nose, some caramel.


Kyle pictures himself drinking this by a firepit on a cold autumn night with the stains of a freshly killed deer still damp on his coat's sleeve.


Sean gets lots of spice, and smokiness. Caramel sweetness, not vanilla.


Ratings time: This is one of the S&P Crew's fave. The balance of flavors, all the aspects of scotch get a fair hearing. There's perhaps a lack of complexity but that's to be expected in the intro bottles. Trevor goes high with a 90 on this one, his highest rating. Scott and Kyle love it as well and go 80. Simon goes 78, and Sean 70. Averages out to 79.6.


This is a very approachable and it in every way the perfect answer to the question ''what is scotch?'' AND, at $63C it is priced on the lowest tier of fancy scotches. For that reason, this is the S&P crew's number 1 recommendation for beginners.


There you have it folks.

The S&P Crew

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