Bowmore 18YO Whisky Sponge Version No. 74 – Tyndrum Whisky Information
January sixteenth, 2025
Bowmore 18YO Whisky Sponge Version No. 74
This can be a sibling cask to the 17 yr outdated Bowmore they bottled as Whisky Sponge Version No.50, besides this time it has an additional yr of maturation below its belt and – as that is the final cask of this parcel of inventory – they’ve bottled it at pure cask energy. Whisky Sponge Version No.74 sees them returning to one in every of their most beloved distilleries: Bowmore!
That is an 18 yr outdated Bowmore. It was distilled in 2003 and matured in a refill sherry butt, nevertheless a number of years in the past its maturation was ‘damaged’ by spending a while out of cask. It was then put again into a unique refill sherry butt to proceed maturing. Therefore the age being 18 years outdated.
This cask isn’t fairly as sherry-forward as its sibling. It’s a extra exuberantly fruity and classical fashionable Bowmore with lovely inflections of sentimental, dry peat smoke, a wealth of coastal freshness and mineral character and lighter background hints of leather-based, tar and eucalyptus from the refill sherry affect. Stunning, highly effective, chiselled and sophisticated.
No cleaning soap was detected or utilised through the shepherding into being of this bottling.
The whole Decadent Drinks crew want to thank Rembrandt for kindly dying in 1669, thus permitting us to riff on his masterpiece ‘The Storm on the Sea of Galilee’ with out concern of authorized reprisal.
They hope you take pleasure in this very particular bottling, it’ll most likely be their final Bowmore for fairly a size of time.
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