Bowmore
Islay / Scotland
- Distillery bottlings 177
- 0000 8
- Adelphi Distillery 15
- A. D. Rattray 2
- Alchemist 1
- Alistair Walker 1
- Antique Lions of Spirits (ALOS) 1
- Berry Bros. & Rudd 11
- Blackadder 5
- C&S Dram Collection 1
- Càrn Mòr 6
- Chess Malt 1
- Cooper's Choice 2
- Creative Whisky Company 7
- Daily Dram 2
- Darkness! 2
- Douglas Laing 35
- Douglas of Drumlanrig 2
- Duncan Taylor 14
- Edition Spirits 2
- Elements of Islay 7
- Elixir Distillers 1
- FassZination 1
- Feinkost Reifferscheid 1
- Gleann Mór 3
- Hart Brothers 3
- Holland Whisky Association 2
- Hunter Laing 15
- Ian Macleod Distillers Ltd 3
- Jack Wiebers 4
- Kintra Whisky 1
- Lady of the Glen 1
- La Maison du Whisky 4
- Lombard 1
- MacBeatha 1
- MacDuff International 1
- Mackillop's Choice 5
- Maltbarn 1
- Malts Of Scotland 11
- Master of Malt 1
- Montgomerie's 3
- Murray McDavid 12
- Rest & Be Thankful Whisky Company 1
- Samaroli 1
- Sansibar 1
- Signatory 35
- Silver Seal 2
- Speciality Drinks 1
- Suntory 1
- Taste Still 1
- That Boutique-y Whisky Company 5
- The Queen of the Moorlands Whisky Company 1
- The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) 1
- The Ultimate Whisky Company 55
- The Whisky Agency 2
- The Whisky Connoisseur 1
- The Whiskyman 1
- Wemyss Malts 11
- Whiskybroker 1
- Whisky Sponge 1
- Wilson & Morgan 2
- WM Cadenhead 10
Signatory
Bowmore 11 year old 2002/2014 cask 2182
Bowmore 12 year old 1999
Bowmore 12 year old 2001 cask 1365
Bowmore 12 year old 2002 cask 2178 + 2180
Bowmore 13 year old 2001/2014 cask 1369
Bowmore 13 year old 1999
Bowmore 13 year old 2000 cask 1427 + 1428
Bowmore 13 year old 2000 cask 1441 + 1442
Bowmore 13 year old 2002
Bowmore 13 year old 2002 cask 2166 + 2170
Bowmore 14 year old 1997
Bowmore 14 year old 1997
Bowmore 16 year old 1988/2005 cask 42506/07/22
Bowmore 16 year old 1994
Bowmore 16 year old 1997 cask 1913
Bowmore 16 year old 1997 cask 1914 + 1915
Bowmore 16 year old 1998 cask 800152
Bowmore 17 year old 1997 cask 2421
Bowmore 17 year old 1998 cask 800153 + 800154
Bowmore 18 year old 2001/2019 cask 106
Bowmore 23 year old 1985
Bowmore 25 year old 1985
Bowmore 25 year old 1985 cask 32206
Bowmore 25 year old 1985 cask 32207
Bowmore 25 year old 1985 cask 32211
Bowmore 28 year old 1980
Bowmore 35 year old 1970 Rare Reserve
Bowmore 40 year old 1970 Rare Reserve
Bowmore 40 year old 1970/2010 cask 4467
Bowmore 42 year old 1974/2017 cask 4435
Bowmore 1990
Bowmore 2002/2015 cask 2174 & 2181
The story of Bowmore
Bowmore is a distillery that produces scotch whisky on the isle of Islay, an island of the Inner Hebrides. The distillery, which lies on the South Eastern shore of Loch Indaal, is one of the oldest in Scotland and is said to have been established in 1779. The distillery is owned by Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd, a holding company owned by Japanese drinks company Suntory. Morrison Bowmore also own the Auchentoshan and Glen Garioch distilleries and produce the McClelland's Single Malt range of bottlings.
History
The Bowmore Distillery was established in 1779 by a local merchant, John P. Simpson, before passing into the ownership of the Mutter family, a family of German descent. James Mutter, head of the family, also had farming interests and was Vice Consul representing the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, and Brazil through their Glasgow consulates. There are no records that pinpoint the date Mutter acquired the distillery from Simpson. Mutter would introduce a number of innovative processes to the distillery during his tenure and even had a small iron steam ship built to import barley and coal from the mainland and to export the whisky to Glasgow. A bottle of 1850 Bowmore Single Malt was sold at an auction in September 2007 for £29,400.The distillery was bought from the Mutter family in 1925 by J.B. Sheriff & Co. and remained under their ownership until being purchased by Inverness-based William Grigor & Son, Ltd. in 1950.During the World Wars the Bowmore Distillery halted production, and hosted the RAF Coastal Command for much of World War II, Coastal Command operated flying boats from Loch Indaal on Anti-submarine warfare missions.Stanley P. Morrison and James Howat formed Stanley P. Morrison Ltd. in 1951, and this company formed Morrison's Bowmore Distillery, Ltd. in 1963 in order to take over the Bowmore Distillery. Stanley P. Morrison died in 1971, and control of the companies passed to Brian Morrison. The company name has changed slightly, and, following minor restructuring, the distillery is now owned by Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd., which is ultimately owned by the Japanese distiller Suntory, following their takeover of Morrison Bowmore Distillers Ltd. during 1994. Suntory had previously been a shareholder in Morrison Bowmore for several years.
Production
Bowmore Distillery sources as much barley as possible from on the island of Islay, but there are insufficient quantities produced to satisfy the distillery's demand, so barley is also imported from the mainland. The distillery retains a traditional floor malting, but this also lacks sufficient capacity; the barley imported from the mainland is normally already malted.The distillery has an annual capacity of 2,000,000 litres, with fermentation undertaken in traditional wooden washbacks before the liquid is passed through two wash stills and then through two spirit stills.The waste heat from the distillation process goes to heat a nearby public swimming pool that was built in one of the distillery's former warehouses.Morrison Bowmore bottles all whisky produced at Bowmore Distillery and their other distilleries at a facility in Springburn, Glasgow.