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Bowmore 1999 Hand Filled 17 Year Old PX Cask #24 / Feis Ile 2016

Lot: 6145078

Bowmore 1999 Hand Filled 17 Year Old PX Cask #24 / Feis Ile 2016

Winning Bid: £386

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Bowmore
Age: 
17 Year Old
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Islay
Bottler: 
Official
Cask Type: 
PX European Oak
Bottled Strength: 
56.1%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Bowmore 1999 Hand Filled 17 Year Old PX Cask #24 / Feis Ile 2016

Islay’s oldest working distillery, Bowmore was established in 1779 and is now regarded as one of the most popular malts not only on Islay, but in the whole of Scotland. The distillery was acquired by Stanley P. Morrison in 1963, ushering in an era of iconic single malts, including the legendary Black Bowmore, credited by many as the genesis of whisky collecting, bottled in 1993. The distillery was bought under the control Suntory the year after (they had been stakeholders since 1989), and it remains one of the most collectible brands in Scotch whisky today. Bowmore is one of the few remaining Scottish distilleries to use its own floor maltings, providing them with 40% of their requirements.

The Hand Filled releases from Bowmore are distillery exclusive releases that visitors to the gift shop are able to bottle and label themselves. The first cask was made available during the Feis Ile festival on Islay in May 2013, and subsequent iterations have steadily become more and more popular to the point where they have become a must-have for every serious collector.

One of three releases from Bowmore for the 2016 Feis Ile, this was distilled in January 1999 and matured in a single Pedro Ximenez European oak cask.

Feis Ile, also known as the Islay Festival of Music and Malt had humble beginnings. It traces it origins back to 1985 and the establishment of The Islay Festival Association after it was realised that an event celebrating Gaelic, music and culture would drive tourism to the island. The inaugural event was rtwo weeks of music, drama and workshops with ceilidhs, concerts and dances in the evening. The first whisky tasting took place as a festival event in 1990, and ten years later the island's distilleries began to be directly involved, organising their annual open days to coincide with it. Today it is one of the biggest events on the whisky calendar, annually drawing hundreds of revellers, and turning out an increasingly sought-after batch of limited edition whiskies like this.

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