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Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s


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Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
LOT ID: 0524-320

Winning Bid
£230.00

End Date: 03 Jul 2024
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - Presentation Set
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - Presentation Set
LOT ID: 0524-631

Winning Bid
£235.00

End Date: 03 Jul 2024
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
LOT ID: 0224-158

Winning Bid
£195.00

End Date: 20 Mar 2024
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
LOT ID: 0323-304

Winning Bid
£260.00

End Date: 26 Apr 2023
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 302

Winning Bid
£290.00

End Date: 14 Sep 2022
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 127

Winning Bid
£330.00

End Date: 07 Jun 2022
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 339

Winning Bid
£280.00

End Date: 07 Jun 2022
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 549

Winning Bid
£290.00

End Date: 23 Mar 2022
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 1216

Winning Bid
£260.00

End Date: 05 Jan 2022
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 365

Winning Bid
£280.00

End Date: 24 Nov 2021
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 444

Winning Bid
£245.00

End Date: 24 Nov 2021
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 770

Winning Bid
£290.00

End Date: 24 Nov 2021
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 245

Winning Bid
£260.00

End Date: 28 Apr 2021
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 732

Winning Bid
£260.00

End Date: 07 Oct 2020
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 824

Winning Bid
£260.00

End Date: 07 Oct 2020
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 695

Winning Bid
£250.00

End Date: 22 Jul 2020
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 521

Winning Bid
£210.00

End Date: 05 Feb 2020
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 179

Winning Bid
£225.00

End Date: 04 Dec 2019
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 594

Winning Bid
£250.00

End Date: 05 Jun 2019
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 557

Winning Bid
£250.00

End Date: 06 Mar 2019
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 1048

Winning Bid
£280.00

End Date: 23 Jan 2019
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 673

Winning Bid
£245.00

End Date: 02 May 2018
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 360

Winning Bid
£260.00

End Date: 07 Feb 2018
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 347

Winning Bid
£280.00

End Date: 05 Jul 2017
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 380

Winning Bid
£195.00

End Date: 05 Jul 2017
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 475

Winning Bid
£215.00

End Date: 04 Jan 2017
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 170

Winning Bid
£205.00

End Date: 03 Aug 2016
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 664

Winning Bid
£190.00

End Date: 06 Jul 2016
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 635

Winning Bid
£145.00

End Date: 06 Jan 2016
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 259

Winning Bid
£155.00

End Date: 02 Dec 2015
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
LOT ID: 619

Winning Bid
£205.00

End Date: 02 Sep 2015
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
LOT ID: 665

Winning Bid
£165.00

End Date: 19 Jul 2015
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 500

Winning Bid
£140.00

End Date: 17 May 2015
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 789

Winning Bid
£155.00

End Date: 17 May 2015
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
LOT ID: 894

Winning Bid
£200.00

End Date: 07 Jan 2015
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 198

Winning Bid
£215.00

End Date: 06 Aug 2014
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 498

Winning Bid
£145.00

End Date: 06 Aug 2014
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 549

Winning Bid
£160.00

End Date: 02 Jul 2014
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
LOT ID: 590

Winning Bid
£155.00

End Date: 13 Nov 2013
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 440

Winning Bid
£175.00

End Date: 13 Nov 2013
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 399

Winning Bid
£135.00

End Date: 09 Oct 2013
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s
LOT ID: 523

Winning Bid
£180.00

End Date: 03 Jul 2013
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 245

Winning Bid
£165.00

End Date: 29 May 2013
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s
LOT ID: 270

Winning Bid
£127.00

End Date: 15 Aug 2012

Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s

Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy. Bottled 1980s. 75cl. 40%.

A lovely old bottle of Bowmore 12-year-old bottled in the 1980s. Bowmores from this era would have been distilled in the 1970s and usually have a generous dollop of sherry casks in the recipe which, combined with the distillery’s mediumweight phenols and abundant fruitiness make these old dumpy 12-year-olds highly sought-after.

Distillery:  Bowmore

Distillery Status:  Working

Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Region: Islay

Bottling Year: 1980s

Age: 12

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 75cl / 750ml

ABV: 43%

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.