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Bowmore 1964 Black Bowmore 29 Year Old 1st Edition 75cl / US Import

Lot: 155736

Bowmore 1964 Black Bowmore 29 Year Old 1st Edition 75cl / US Import

Winning Bid: £8,000
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 14 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Bowmore
Age: 
29 Year Old
Vintage: 
1964
Region: 
Islay
Bottler: 
Official
Cask Type: 
Oloroso Sherry
Bottled Strength: 
50%
Bottle Size: 
75cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Bowmore 1964 Black Bowmore 29 Year Old 1st Edition 75cl / US Import

An icon of the whisky world, it's hard to fathom where whisky collecting would be today without the Black Bowmore.  

The first release of three, all distilled in 1964 and matured within single Oloroso sherry casks before being bottled in 1993. Sherry casks were used far more regularly in the 1960s than they are now, and this bottle is testament to the quality of these casks.

The Black Bowmore not just a whisky but a true artifact from the history of the spirit, representing a turning point for single malts. Appearing at a zenith in the popularity of sherry-casked whisky, which was for the first time creating a fashionable buzz around single malt whiskies, seeing it replace cognac as the after dinner drink of choice at banqueting tables, and customers now willing to pay the heady sum of £120 for a bottle. We may look back and scoff at this now but this was a princely fee back in the early 90s when the Black Bowmore was first stocked by Oddbins in the UK.

Speaking of the Black Bowmore, Dave Broom writes:

"If you look at Black Bowmore as fiction, you see it grow from being a simple tale about a product into something which acquires the trappings of legend and myth. What was once ‘Islay’ had been condensed into distilleries; distilleries compressed into specific peculiarities – in Black Bowmore’s case, the magical, never fully explicable weirdness of the conditions in No 1 Vaults, one of walls of which sits below the level of the loch outside; a place of cold and damp, where evaporation is minimal, where elements are both preserved and warped into new shapes, where time slows and things deepen."

Bottle number 312 of 2000 produced.

This example comes with the more common foil seal, due to the poor design of the original wax seal, they were recalled and re-sealed. 

 

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