BOWMORE 18 Year Old VAP
BOWMORE 18 year old single malt scotch whisky. It is a masterful combination. Cosseted away in the finest, hand-selected oak casks and allowed to mature at its own sedate pace, this is one of the most remarkable, perfectly balanced malts of its kind. One of our rarest most exceptional bottlings, the stocks of Bowmore 18 Years Old may be limited but there’s no end to its enjoyment.
William Simson founded Bowmore in the year 1779 in Islay. It is the home of the world’s oldest Scotch Maturation Warehouse; The Legendary No.1 Vaults. Furthremore, Bowmore was the first of Islay’s distilleries to receive a licence, springing fully-formed into official existence in 1779. In addition, William Simson had been been distilling in Bowmore since shortly after his arrival in 1766. At a time when Daniel Campbell the Younger (the laird of the island) was expanding the village into the island’s capital.
The distillery passed through four owners before 1963. Morrison family bought it and also sold to the Japanese whisky company Suntory in 1994.
