Bowmore Islay Single Malt Whisky has released the fifth and final edition in its highly-collectable Black Bowmore 1964 distillation series.
Only 10 bottles of ‘Black Bowmore 50 Year Old, The Last Cask to be rediscovered’ will be released in global travel retail (out of 159 bottles internationally).
As the name suggests, the expression has spent 50 years in cask maturing in Bowmore’s No. 1 Vaults, claimed to be the world’s oldest Scotch maturation warehouse. It features notes of tropical fruit and honeyed black truffle complemented by Bowmore’s signature peat smoke notes, the company said.
Black Bowmore 50 Year Old, The Last Cask to be rediscovered launched on 1 November, with each bottle presented in a bespoke handmade cabinet. Silver contours mark the passing of time since the first Black Bowmore distillation on 5 November 1964 at the Bowmore distillery on Islay.
The expression takes its name from the intense maturation in first-fill Oloroso sherry casks, which has imparted a deep, black pearl darkness to the colour of the whisky, Bowmore said.
With the first release in 1993 and the fourth in 2007, the final expression in the Black Bowmore 1964 distillation series relied on the rediscovery of casks “in the darkest, coolest corner of the No.1 Vaults”, Bowmore said.
Distillery Manager David Turner, whose grandfather worked on the original bottling over 50 years ago, said: “This last cask of Black Bowmore to be rediscovered not only demonstrates the unparalleled depth and quality of our single malts but cements Bowmore as one of the world’s leading whiskies.”
