New Release: Bowmore 1999 15 Year Old Speciality Drinks #800215

The tropical notes were quite strong. Bowmore BOWMORE 1999-2014 15yo Speciality Drinks #800215 55.2% one of 266 bottles, Barrel The aroma is elegant with passion fruit, grapefruit, and a smoky peat note. There's also a subtle paper-like quality. Upon tasting, the tropical fruits like passion fruit and pineapple are strong with a rich sweetness, some spicy heat, a faint paper-like quality, woody bitterness from raw wood and plants, smoky finish with good clarity, slightly oily with a long aftertaste. [Good/Very Good] This is a new release from the Single Malt of Scotland by Speciality Drinks (Whisky Exchange), Bowmore 1999, aged for 15 years. The aroma is elegant with a strong tropical flavor of passion fruit typical of Bowmore, along with grapefruit and a distinct smoky peat note. When tasted, the tropical notes were even stronger than expected from the aroma. However, I personally found a slight paper-like quality and a woody bitterness somewhat off-putting. I have become slightly more sensitive to these kinds of flavors recently, but if that doesn't bother you, this is a very tasty Bowmore with strong tropical notes.