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Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre


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Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 0824-413

Winning Bid
£235.00

End Date: 16 Oct 2024
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 0124-601

Winning Bid
£290.00

End Date: 14 Feb 2024
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 0923-512

Winning Bid
£310.00

End Date: 22 Nov 2023
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 0723-914

Winning Bid
£280.00

End Date: 13 Sep 2023
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 0623-199

Winning Bid
£250.00

End Date: 09 Aug 2023
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 0123-295

Winning Bid
£430.00

End Date: 08 Feb 2023
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 1022-707

Winning Bid
£270.00

End Date: 04 Jan 2023
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 0922-752

Winning Bid
£390.00

End Date: 30 Nov 2022
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 540

Winning Bid
£360.00

End Date: 24 Mar 2021
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 923

Winning Bid
£340.00

End Date: 07 Oct 2020
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 354

Winning Bid
£280.00

End Date: 30 Oct 2019
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 468

Winning Bid
£330.00

End Date: 02 Oct 2019
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 579

Winning Bid
£300.00

End Date: 05 Jun 2019
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 493

Winning Bid
£260.00

End Date: 01 May 2019
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 645

Winning Bid
£300.00

End Date: 03 Apr 2019
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 710

Winning Bid
£270.00

End Date: 05 Dec 2018
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 567

Winning Bid
£280.00

End Date: 01 Aug 2018
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 377

Winning Bid
£235.00

End Date: 02 May 2018
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 124

Winning Bid
£320.00

End Date: 04 Apr 2018
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 221

Winning Bid
£370.00

End Date: 07 Feb 2018
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 621

Winning Bid
£360.00

End Date: 06 Sep 2017
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 489

Winning Bid
£300.00

End Date: 05 Jul 2017
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 839

Winning Bid
£350.00

End Date: 07 Sep 2016
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 555

Winning Bid
£210.00

End Date: 04 Feb 2015
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 987

Winning Bid
£180.00

End Date: 03 Dec 2014
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 440

Winning Bid
£160.00

End Date: 02 Jul 2014
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 699

Winning Bid
£160.00

End Date: 02 Jul 2014
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
Bowmore 12 Year Old - 1980s - 1 Litre
LOT ID: 543

Winning Bid
£180.00

End Date: 07 May 2014

Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy - 1980s - 1 Litre

Bowmore 12 Year Old Dumpy. Bottled 1980s. 1 litre. 43%.

A lovely old litre bottling of Bowmore 12-year-old in the classic 1980s long-necked dumpy bottle. These old 1970s-distilled Bowmore 12-year-olds at 43% are usually medium-bodied with a noticeable sherry influence and are generally gentle and sophisticated with notes of wet turfy peat, ripe and cooked fruit, metal polish, saltwater, ash, copper, walnuts and herbal bitters. A wonderful old-school Islay dram.

Distillery:  Bowmore

Distillery Status:  Working

Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Region: Islay

Bottling Year: 1980s

Age: 12

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 1 Litre

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.