Bowmore Islay Festival 2010 Bottles

[JAB]

This year Bowmore relesed 2 bottles for the festival there 10 yo Tempest and a 25yo to celebrate 25 years of the Festival.

Tempest 10 year Old, The bottle is one of only 500 and comes with a hand signed certificate of authenticity by distillery manager Eddie MacAffer.

Cask Strength: 53.3% ABV 70cl.

Islay Festival Bowmore medallion around neck of bottle and the tube comes sealed as shown in the photo with the bottle, medallion and certificate inside. The seal on the tube also states the bottle is from the Islay festival 2010 making this bottle highly collectable.

It was priced at £45 but is now selling on ebay for around £80


Bowmore 25 year Old, which was specially bottled for Feis Ile 2010.

The bottle is one of only 100 which sold out within minutes of going on sale.

This Commemorative bottle was released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Islay festival and is individually numbered and hand signed by the distillery manager Eddie MacAffer.

Cask Strength: 53.1% ABV.

Non Chill-filtered.

This bottle is extremely rare and only approximately 60 were available to the public.

The bottle comes presented in a stunning bespoke presentation box

It was priced at £325 but is bow selling on ebay for around £550

[Keith]

I had a bottle of the Bowmore Tempest 10 year old last year and i would say one of the best new Bowmores i have had for quite some time. Hope the festival bottling is as good.

[Alastair]

JAB you done well getting a bottle of the Bowmore Feis Ile 25 year old, i heard some queued from the early hours of the morning just to get a hold of this. Are you planning on drinking it as i think it will fetch a premium price in the not too distant future.

Alastair

[Big Mac]

If you do open it JAB, let us know what you think of it as i have heard it is supposed to be a cracker.

Mac

[JAB]

Yes if you wanted to get a bottle of this then you had to Q up in the early hours to get yourself a ticket (This garanteed you a bottle when the shop started selling them at 10am) I herd some people started Qing at 1am

later i was told that only 60 where alocated for public sale.

NO i will not be opening mine i am afraid because -
1 it is selling for £200 + more than i payed for it, (be alot more in years to come)
2 I magaged to get a taste of it on the day.

The 25yo feis ile in my opion is someting special, it noses like a clasic bowmore with the smokyness, but with a hint of the sea air coming through. This might have something to do with being matured in number 1 vaults.
The taste of this is amazing, it does have the clasic bowmore smoky tatse but it is different and hard to describe. it tatses of nuts (hazelnut & coconut), zesty citrus almost peppery flavour with a slight bitter chocolate tatse,
It is very paletable and just sits in you mouth on your palate.