Bowmore – 25 Year Old - 'The Gulls' Ceramic Decanter (70cl, 43%)

Bowmore – 25 Year Old - 'The Gulls' Ceramic Decanter is a single malt whisky from Bowmore (Islay). Aged 25 years, bottled at 43% ABV, 70cl. This 25-year-old is from a range of expressions named after the Islay legend of "The Gulls," and were first bottled in the early 1990s. Back in the day, when the Scots travelled from their Celtic lands to create the Kingdom of Dalriada-in-Alban, the Pictish and Brythonic tribes who already lived in the lands resisted fiercely. Legend says that the daughter of a Pictish King fell in love with a captured Scottish warrior and helped him escape. Together they fled westwards to Islay. Rowing towards the young warrior's home on the shores of Loch Indaal, a terrible storm assaulted their boat, sending it crashing into the rocky coast line. The young Scot's clansmen found only debris and no sign 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 oldest operational distillery on the isle of Islay, built in 1779. Today it is part of the Suntory Group, having been acquired by the Japanese company in 1994. Under their ownership is has been nurtured into one of the most collectable names in Scotch whisky.