Bowmore 1968 DT Rare Auld
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Bowmore |
| Bottler | Duncan Taylor (DT) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1968 |
| Bottled Year | 2006 |
| Age | 37년 |
| Cask Type | Oak Casks |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 40.5% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
white wine
air Nose
very similar ‘of course’, a tad more on vanilla and caramel and maybe a little less fresh… Less lemony and more on gooseberries and strawberries, and also spicier and woodier (quite some pepper and ginger). Hints of lavender and violets, as well as heather again. Maybe a little less ‘easy’
restaurant Palate
more nervous than the ‘NC’, and also sharper now. I liked its sibling’s nose a little better but this is much, much better on the palate. Lots of vivacity, on starting on lemon and grapefruit juice, fructose, fruit Jell-o, bubblegum… Notes of nougat and praline, candied angelica, Sevilla oranges… Good, very good if not too complex. A little liquorice as well, orange marmalade… And the finish is rather long this time, compact, on pineapple, grapefruit and candy sugar as well as a little salt. Good-good! 86 points . June 6, 2006 CONCERT REVIEW by Nick Morgan RODDY FRAME Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London, June 2nd, 2006 It’s a warm Friday night in London, and the Bush is strangely only half full. The restive audience chat their way through support Martha Tilston’s set, and become even noisier during the interval. With a single microphone stand up front and in the middle it looks like a big old stage, and I’m beginning to wonder how anyone can really fill it just by themselves, let alone command the attention of this increasingly boisterous bunch. I shouldn’t have worried. From the moment Roddy Frame walks on stage he has the audience in the palm of his hand – at times the quiet is astonishing (during a very hushed lull between songs a fan shouts out, earning the rebuke “Look man, can’t you just enjoy the silence, it’s beautiful man”). Frame calms down a fight at the front of the crowd, takes a love poem from an outstretched hand, begins to read it, begins to critique it (“one blue would have been enough man”) and then refuses to finish it – “just buy her something expensive man”. He tells a wonderful joke about nut roasts, and a familiar apocryphal Glaswegian story about knife wounds. Altogether he’s engaged and engaging, and when, right at the end of the show he says “I’ve had a lovely time playing for you” you know it’s true. You almost felt you could have been sitting at home with Roddy on the sofa playing and chatting while his pal the wonderful Edwyn Collins (who was
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