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Gold Bowmore 1964 - 2009. 44 Year Old. Part of the Trilogy series. One of 701 bottles. 70cl. 42.4%. In presentation box.
A legendary Gold Bowmore 1964 44-year-old Islay single malt whisky. This stunning whisky was the third and final bottling of the third 1964 series released by the distillery in the 1990s and 2000s, after the original trio of Black Bowmore bottlings (1993-95) and then the first Bowmore Trilogy series (2002-03).
Gold Bowmore was a vatting of three bourbon casks and one Oloroso sherry cask filled on the 5th November 1964, but the angels had been (understandably) greedy by the time this was bottled in 2009, and the four casks yielded a total of just 701 bottles at a natural cask strength of 42.4%. This 44-year-old Gold Bowmore was the oldest whisky ever released by the distillery at the time, though that record only lasted until the arrival of Bowmore 1957 a couple of years later in 2011. An utterly magnificent dram, Gold Bowmore’s peat has been mellowed to a thin thread of smoke by nearly four and half decades in wood, leaving the stage clear for an extraordinary palate packed with citrus and exotic fruits.
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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