Bowmore Legend of the Devil Limited Edition Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky 40.0% Vol. - rare old bottling from the 1996 of the famous Bowmore Legend Limited Series!
A rare old bottling of a Bowmore Legend Legend of the Devel limited Edition Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky and the 3rd release from the year 1996. This limited edition of the Bowmore Legend was presented by Bowmore in the years 1994 to 2006 in a total of 13 issues with yearly changing motifs in relief print in a metal-tin on the market. On the elaborately designed and embossed metal tins, a legend of Islay Island was presented in English. The limited Bowmore Legend bottlings were available for the international and a version for the Italian market, which partly had a slightly deviant design and bottles with age indication (8 years) of the Bowmore Legend.
Today almost all bottlings from the Bowmore Legend limited edition series with the decorative tin are rarely found and the most popular bottlings among collectors.
The Story of the Legend of the Devil:
Legend has it that in 1837, on a clear winter s evening, the devil visited the church in Bowmore. The church was round in shape, purposely built, in preparation for such a visit as there were no corners in which the devil could hide. The local congregation chased the devil from the church. He fled through the village, eventually finding a hiding place in Bowmore distillery. The villagers raced through the distillery, in search of the devil.
That night the Warehousemen were filling the golden Bowmore whisky into casks and loading them aboard The Maid of Islay, the tiny paddle steamship used for transporting Bowmore whisky to the mainland. All the distillery doors and gates were slammed shut and locked to prevent the devil s escape. The distillery was searched from the maltbarns to the mash house, but the devil was nowhere to be found. The Maid of Islay, loaded with the last cask of Bowmore, gave a loud blast of her horn and paddled off across the calm Loch Indaal into the clear dark night.
The devil was never found that night, but, as legend goes, escaped in a cask of Bowmore destined for the mainland. Whether The Maid of Islay ever reached the mainland is not known, but on certain still winter nights, the sound of the sea lapping against the distillery wall is akin to the faint paddling of a small steamship in the distance.
- Colour: light gold
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Distillery Bottling
- District: Islay / Location: Rothes
- Vintage: 1988 and earlier
- Age: 8 years old
- Year bottled: 1996
- Cask Wood Type: Oak Casks
- Alcohol ABV% 40.0
- Bottling Series: Legend of the Devil Limited Edition - 3rd Release 1996
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- Label: Seagull-Label with 3 icon backlabel
- chill filtered / coloured
- Packaging with tin (tin with dents and signs of age)
- Producer/Importer: Bowmore Distillery, Bowmore, Islay, PA43 7JS, Scotland
- Country of Origin Scotland
- limited, number unknown - rare collector s whisky!
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