Sold outDec 2021In short · Bowmore (Islay), 17 years.
“Limited to 1 bottle per member We imagined sitting on a newly varnished wooden bench in a blooming rose garden overlooking a lake and smoking our own rolled peaches and…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 3.338 is a single cask of Bowmore, in the Islay region, 17 years old, bottled at 57.6%, released in the Dec 2021 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 3.x is from Bowmore.
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On the shore of Loch Indaal, in Islay's whitewashed little capital, Bowmore has turned barley into spirit since 1779, the island's oldest recorded distillery. Descend into its No.1 Vaults, a legendary warehouse dug below the tideline, and you can hear the sea working against the walls where the casks sleep. The whisky is a study in balance: a gentle coil of Islay smoke laid over a deep, exotic sweetness that in older bottlings blooms into mango and passion fruit. Owned by Beam Suntory.