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Bowmore 1967 - 2008. 40 Year Old. Premier Range. Cask number 4538. One of 39 decanters matured in a Bourbon Cask. 900ml. 44.1%.+ 2 x 5cl miniatures. In presentation box and outer box.
The late 1960s are widely regarded as Bowmore's greatest period, a remarkable era that produced some of the most celebrated and collectible single malt whiskies ever bottled. Distilled during a time when traditional floor maltings, direct-fired stills and slower production methods were still central to the distillery's character, these legendary vintages have become benchmarks against which many of the world's finest whiskies are judged.
This extraordinary Bowmore was distilled on 20th October 1967 and matured for more than forty years in a single bourbon cask before being bottled in June 2008 as part of Bowmore's prestigious Premier Range. Drawn from Cask #4538 at a natural strength of 44.1% ABV, the cask yielded just 39 decanters, making it one of the rarest releases from this revered vintage.
While many famous 1960s Bowmores owe their reputation to long maturation in sherry casks, this bourbon cask bottling offers a fascinating alternative perspective on the distillery's golden era. Four decades of patient maturation have allowed the spirit's distinctive tropical fruit character to shine through, supported by layers of soft peat smoke, maritime complexity and remarkable elegance.
Presented in the luxurious Premier Range leatherette case and accompanied by two miniature samples, this release exemplifies the type of ultra-premium bottling that helped cement Bowmore's reputation among collectors during the whisky boom of the early twenty-first century. Today, with only 39 bottles originally produced and very few appearing on the market, Cask #4538 stands among the rarest and most desirable examples of mature Bowmore from the distillery's legendary 1967 vintage.
Constructed in 1779, Bowmore is Islay’s oldest distillery and dominates the island’s capital. After changing hands several times early in the 20th century, Bowmore distillery was bought by Stanley P. Morrison in 1963 and embarked on a golden era. This lasted until the early 1980s, when a strangely soapy character took hold in Bowmore’s spirit, before another run of extraordinary quality in the 1990s. The Japanese firm Suntory took full control of Bowmore in 1994, the year after the first release of Black Bowmore, a legendary whisky that catalysed the prestige whisky market.
Early official bottlings of Bowmore are highly sought after, particularly the Sherriff’s bottlings, the stunning Bicentenary editions, and the 1950s-70s vintage editions that appeared from the early 1980s. The modern Bowmore 1964 Trilogies and subsequent prestige bottlings are also fiercely contested by deep-pocketed fans, as are the numerous fabulous old indie bottlings of 1960s vintages by Samaroli, Giaccone, Duncan Taylor, Signatory and others.
Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.
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| £10,000.00 | 18th June 2026 | 02:21 AM | |
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