Bowmore Legend of the Gulls Limited Edition Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky 40.0% Vol. - rare 2nd release of the Bowmore Limited Legend Edition from the year 1995!
A rare old bottling of a Bowmore Legend of the Gulls limited Edition Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky and the 2nd release from the year 1995 in an almost perfect collector s condition! 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 or Italian. The limited 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 (8Years) of the Bowmore Legend.
Today almost all versions from this limited edition with the decorative tin are rarely found and the most popular bottlings among collectors.
The Story of the Gulls:
Legend has it that a pair of gulls fly ceaselessly above Lochindaal, on the shores of which lies the Bowmore Distillery. When the Scots spread from their Celtic homeland to create the Kingdom of Dalriada-in-Alban, the Pictish and Brythonic tribes who already occupied the lands resisted fiercely. Much blood was spilt as war raged between them and the incomers.
Legend has it that the daughter of a Pictish King fell in love with a captured Scottish warrior and helped him escape. Together they fled westwards to the Isles. As they rowed towards the young warrior s home on the shores of Lochindaal, the sea loch which bites into the heart of Islay, a terrible storm lashed their boat, sending it crashing against the rocks.
The young Scot s clansmen found only splintered wreckage of the boat and no trace of the lovers - but a pair of white gulls soared and swooped together across the Loch, settling neither on the western nor the eastern shore, as if torn between the two. The legend endures, and today, before a storm, the Bowmore Distillery echoes to the haunting cry of a pair of gulls.
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Distillery Bottling
- District: Islay / Location: Rothes
- Vintage: 1986/1987
- Age: 8 years old
- Year bottled: 1995
- Alcohol ABV% 40.0
- Bottling Series: Legend Limited Edition 1995 - 2nd Release
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- chill filtered / coloured
- Label: Morrison s Bowmore Distillery / Seagull-Label without icons on the backlabel
- Packaging with tin
- Producer/Importer: Morrisons Bowmore Distillery, Bowmore, Islay, PA43 7JS, Scotland
- Country of Origin Scotland
- limited, number unknown - rare collector s whisky!
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