Bowmore 1989 XOP 25 Year Old - Douglas Laing 70cl / 55.1%

A bottle of Bowmore 25 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky. This was distilled in November 1989, matured in a single refill hogshead, and bottled in December 2014 by Douglas Laing for the Xtra Old Particular series.

This is one of 576 bottles; it was bottled from cask number 10581.

Bowmore started distilling in 1779, though there is no evidence of whisky production until John Simpson was granted a licence to distil in 1816. The distillery passed through several hands and even supplied a cask to Windsor Castle before it was purchased by perhaps its most famous owner, Stanley P Morrison, in 1963.

Bowmore maintains its own floor maltings which supplies around a third of its barley and is known for its medium-peated character. The whisky is left to mature in the No.1 Vaults, which inhabits a unique microclimate, said to be perfect for long periods of maturation.

This Bowmore 1989 XOP sold at our online auction for £210