Nose
Blueberry, wild fig, almond, and a sea-salt edge rather than heavy smoke.
No. 05 · Single Malt
Bowmore 1957 54 Year Old
Bowmore · Islay
Bottled in 2011 from a single cask laid down in 1957 and held back after an earlier 38-year-old release. Twelve bottles were filled, which is why it sits with the rarest Islay whisky rather than with Bowmore's regular range.
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- Distillery
- Bowmore
- Country / region
- Scotland · Islay
- Style
- Single Malt
- Year of release
- 2011
- Age statement
- 54 Year Old
- Bottles made
- 12 bottles. A separate 38-year-old from the same 1957 vintage was bottled in much larger numbers and is a different whisky.
- ABV
- 42.1%
- Cask type
- 43 years in second-fill sherry, then a second-fill bourbon cask from 2000
- Approximate value
- Issued in tiny numbers, including at the distillery, at prices reported well into the tens of thousands of pounds and higher. Not a standing price.
Tasting notes
Palate
Cassis, fig, and eucalyptus, with the peat worn down to a mineral trace.
Finish
Long, saline, and gently woody.
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