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
Distillery bottlings
Bowmore 11 year old Sherry & Wine Casks
Bowmore 13 year old 1995
Bowmore 14 year old Mashmen's Selection
Bowmore 16 year old 1990/2006
Bowmore 17 year old
Bowmore 17 year old 1996/2013
Bowmore 18 year old Manzanilla Cask
Bowmore 20 year old 1997/2018
Bowmore 26 year old French Oak Barrique
Bowmore 27 year old
Bowmore 42 year old Black 1964
Bowmore 43 year old White 1964
Bowmore 44 year old Gold 1964
Bowmore 50 year old Black 1964 - The Last Cask
Bowmore 1988/2017 Vintage Edition
Bowmore No. 1 Atlantic Sea Salt
Bowmore Port Cask
Bowmore Second Release Peat Smoke
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.