Bowmore Legend of the Donnachie Mhor Limited Edition Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky 40.0% Vol. - rare old bottling from the year 1997 of the Bowmore limited legend series!
Rare old bottling of a Bowmore Legend Legend of the Donnachie Mhor limited Edition Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky and the 4th release from the year 1997. 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 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 Legend of Donnachie Mhor:
Legend has it, that long ago in the village of Bowmore, on the Island of Islay, lived an illicit distiller called Donnachie Mhor. He was loved for his good humoured pranks but loathed by the Customs man for his illegal whisky production. Donnachie's infamous whisky still was old and leaking. Being a poor man he could not afford to replace it but devised a cunning plan. He carried the old still to the nearby peat moor, where it was buried and the spot marked with a sheep's skull.
Some weeks later he met the Customs man in the local Inn. In conversation, Donnachie explained that he had turned over a new leaf and his days of illicit whisky making were gone forever. The Customs man was pleased but suspicious, so to prove his new character, Donnachie volunteered to take the Customs man to where he knew an illegal still was hidden.
At midnight they set out across the peat moor. After much searching they found a sheep's skull and Donnachie suggested they start digging. As they dug through the soft peat they struck the copper still.
The Customs man, delighted with such a find, proudly carried the still back to Bowmore village where he and Donnachie enjoyed a few drams of the Bowmore Malt in celebration. Donnachie was given a handsome reward for reporting the illegal still. The reward enabled Donnachie to purchase a brand new larger illegal still
- Colour: light gold
- Typ: Single Malt Whisky - Distillery Bottling
- District: Islay / Location: Rothes
- Vintage: 1988/1989
- Age: 8 years old
- Year bottled: 1997
- Cask Wood Type: Oak Casks
- Alcohol ABV% 40.0
- Bottling Series: Legend Limited Edition - 4th Release 1997
- Bottle Size 70cl / 700ml
- Label: Seagull-Label with 3 icon backlabel
- chill filtered / coloured
- Packaging with tin (tin with small dents)
- Producer/Importer: Bowmore Distillery, Bowmore, Islay, PA43 7JS
- Country of Origin Scotland
- limited, number unknown - rare collector´s whisky!
Please examine this product before purchase, as not new from the supplier. Due to the various ages of bottles and their seals, condition of liquid is at the buyer s discretion and no claim can be lodged against failure/leakage in transit.
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