Bowmore 1965 It
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Bowmore |
| Bottler | Intertrade (It) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1965 |
| Bottled Year | 1985 |
| Age | 20년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 48.5% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
Amber
air Nose
Flinty at first with a kind of vegetal earthiness. Not an uber-tropical example of 60s Bowmore. Instead we have some coastal funk like grilled whelks, a few smouldering peat embers, sautéed mushrooms, camphor and notes of soot, squid ink and beach bonfires. With a little breathing a smoky minerality emerges, alongside dried herbs, sandalwood and some more medicinal touches such as mercurochrome and dettol. There’s also a increasingly meaty aspect like fennel sausage or salami. Really quite complex. Not the easiest or most straightforward of old Bowmores but extremely satisfying to nose away at for ages. The fruitiness is more on nervous citrus notes and a few green apples and tart gooseberry
restaurant Palate
Pow! Much more evidently peaty on the palate. Big notes of tarry fishnets, oily kippers, soot, hessian, camphor, pitch and some smoked mussels in brine. Goes on with black olives, rosemary, lapsang souchong and a little smoked mead (although I’m sure that isn’t a thing - even if it should be!). Fantastically oily, briny, smouldering and punchy with a resilient salt and pepper edge to it
timer Finish
Long, earthy, herbal and peaty with preserved lemons, sardines in olive oil and many rugged coastal complexities
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