Munro's Bowmore 25 Year 750ml - A single cask bottling. Light Golden Nose: A powerful blend of smoke and peat but, given a moment or two to develop, this dram opens into a rich and rewarding aroma with notes of oak. This is a beauty a great mouthfeel with much warmth and initial sweetness but finishes with a dryness of quite tart plums. All the time there is the smokiness, the peat and the oak character that reminds one of being locked in a traditional log cabin. An Islay Single Malt that might convert some of those who usually run a mile from too much smoke and peat. Finish: As one might imagine, this dram has a prodigiously long finish – dry, oak and back to the tart plums .... but in a very pleasant way. The River Laggan journeys many miles through Islay, cutting its course through ferrous rocks, peat bog, moss and grassy mound, ‘til it finds itself at the Western harbour town of Bowmore, Islay’s capital. Their whisky distillery produces some two million litres annually and adheres to strict traditions; production methods have scarcely changed in two centuries. Founded in 1779, by John Simpson, Bowmore is Islay’s oldest distillery. Following purchase in 1837, by William and James Mutter, the distillery was resold in 1892 to the Bowmore Distillery Company Ltd.