Bowmore 1969 Bicentenary 1779 - 1979

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Bowmore
Bottler	Distillery Bottling
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1969
Bottled Year	1979
Age	10년
Cask Type	Sherry Cask
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	56.2%
Volume	750 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Vanilla

Sweet

Oaky

Honey

Fruity

Creamy

Dried Fruit

Spicy

Citrus

Smoky

Peaty

Chocolate

Herbal

Floral

Nutty

Maritime

Tasting Notes

Colour

gold

air Nose

immediately grassy, punchy and very mineral. Impressions of squid ink, anchovies, tar, embrocations and horseradish. Like many of the OB single casks of this era this is raw, powerful, petrolic and rather dominating. Brutal yet rather brilliant at the same time. Given time it yields a little more softness and a more easy and fresh coastal salinity. It also becomes a tad more citric, fruity and complex. With water: much more bready, autolytic and olive oily. Camphor, more sweat and some very soft notes of dried tarragon

restaurant Palate

Wow! Stunning delivery. The nose really wrong foots you on the levels of fruit in this one. The palate is stunningly syrupy, fresh, salty and superbly fruity. Vividly coastal, lemony and medical. Full of ointments, embrocations, crushed seashells and brine mixed with olive oil. Passion fruits, coal dust, dried mint, old cigarettes… you could spent all day listing beautiful wee complexities. With water: Quite simply outstanding! The nose in no way prepares you for how thrilling and dominating the palate is. A perfect fusion of oily peat, jellied exotic fruits and salty, umami broths

timer Finish

endless and twining all the above flavours together like rope. Devastating complexity. Grisly, gutsy exotic fruits, fatness, greasy peat, chunky minerality and again this feeling of petrol

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