Bowmore goes for Gold

Gold Bowmore is the latest release from the famous weather-beaten distillery on the Scottish island of Islay.

Just 701 bottles of this 44-year-old single malt have been released, each hand-numbered and encased in a Burr Elm box.
 
44 years of quiet maturation in the number one vaults has allowed a rare example of Bowmore single malt to develop – the oldest one ever to be released from the distillery.

Gold Bowmore is uniquely matured in three Bourbon casks and a single Oloroso cask then carefully married together.

The Bowmore trilogy of Gold, White and Black began in 2007 with Black Bowmore, of which there were just 827 bottles produced.

This was followed last year by the release of White Bowmore, matured in Bourbon casks, with just 732 bottles. All three spirits come from the same year – the first time a Bowmore trilogy has been created this way.

Eddie McAffer, distillery manager at Bowmore, said: “I am so proud to see this last and very special part of the trilogy released.

“At Bowmore we put everything we have into every single bottle but this Gold Bowmore is something quite unique, embodying everything that is special about the whisky and from a year when things at the Bowmore distillery really went into a new era.”

Gold Bowmore (42.4%) will be available for pre-orders from 1 September at Harrods, Whisky Exchange, Fortnum & Masons, Vintage House & Harvey Nichol’s and will be on sale from 23 September at £3,000 RRP.

Alan Lodge, 23.09.2009