Bowmore Devil's Casks Limited Release Batch #1 (2013) 70cl

Bowmore Devil's Casks Limited Release Batch #1 (2013) 70cl

An INCREDIBLY RARE hard to even find anymore bottle. The limited run of 6,000 bottles sold out very quickly upon their release.

Matured exclusively, and unusually, for 10 years in the finest first fill Sherry casks, which help to bring out Bowmore’s hot and fiery characteristics, this small batch release is, quite simply, devilishly good!

If you like Bowmore then this stuff is some of the best and finest liquid ever to be created. Every dram of this is just majestic. We cannot praise this highly enough and all we want to do is open it!

If a zombie apocalypse came and we were locked away with this, we almost would not even mind that civilization is collapsing around us from how good a Devil's cask Bowmore is!

"Legend has it that the Devil once visited the church in Bowmore...a circular church built such that there are no corners for the Devil to hide....and then chased by the locals into the Bowmore distillery, the story as it is told....the Devil finally escaped in a cask of Bowmore bound for the mainland"

TASTING NOTES

Nose: Old leather, dirty vegetal smoke and sour fruits. Tanned hides, damp cloth and sofa from a land taste forgot are combined with smoke that’s part greasy and industrial and part garden bonfire – it’s a damp and oily peat, picking up plenty of forest mosses and lichen. The fruit influence is less palpable than I was expecting from 1st fill sherry and red wine – it’s rather murky, subsumed, dry and acrid – certainly cherries and berries, along with under ripe plums. In the background, shale beaches and rocky outcroppings with a note of heavy cloying stale perfume. Reduction improves things with a brighter fruit influence as well as chocolate orange and a meatier smoke of burnt ends and beef juices.

Palate: The arrival is fresher and livelier but still quite leathery and vegetal. Blackberries, cranberries, cherries and oranges moving into car seats, handbags, damp soils and bracken. The mid-palate starts to get gloomy once again with steeped black tea, week-old spent tobacco and molten rubber. The back-palate unleashes the wood influence – bitter, tannic and with an abundance (over?) of spices – intense cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Reduction brings out some chocolate and toffee flavours as well as (after some time in the glass) reducing both the acrid and the spice notes down to more palatable levels.

Finish: Medium, leathery smoke with chilli spice, cinnamon and pepper.

56.9% ABV

70cl