Bowmore is a
single malt scotch whisky produced on the
isle of
Islay in
Scotland.
Some people have
reported that some newer
bottlings of Bowmore have
suffered from something referered to as
French Whore Perfume (or FWP)
syndrome. This is a very
strong,
odd perfumey taste. It isn't present in all
bottles and some people don't notice it at all while others can't stand it. The
distillery denies that there is any
problem at all. No one is excatly sure why this happens but the two leading
theories are that either that the distillery means for it to taste that way (though I can't imagine why) or (the more likely reason) that this results from
residue from a
cleaning agent used to wash the bottles (or maybe they use the same
bottling plant as
Avon, I don't know.)
If you can find a bottle without this
affliction then Bowmore is quite a
nice whisky. It is
available in a wide
range of
expressions from the Bowmore
Legend (no
age statement but believed to be 8
years old) to the
standard 12 and 17
year old
bottlings to specialty bottlings like Bowmore
Dusk and Bowmore
Mariner all the way to the
rare (and
expensive)
Black Bowmore.