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An Evening with Bowmore - The Whiskey Jar Tastings #4

Wed 17 Oct

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An Evening with Bowmore - The Whiskey Jar Tastings #4
An Evening with Bowmore - The Whiskey Jar Tastings #4

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17 Oct 2018, 18:00 – 20:00

The Whiskey Jar, 14 Tariff St, Manchester M1 2FF, UK

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Come and join us for our third intimate tasting with Mike Green from Edrington-Beam Suntory UK. This time around, we are hosting Bowmore for what will be a very personal with a combination of their core range but also some limited releases.

Bowmore was the first of Islay's distilleries to receive a licence, springing fully-formed into official existence in 1779. It is likely that the founder of the distillery, one William Simson, had been been distilling in Bowmore since shortly after his arrival in 1766,at a time when Daniel Campbell the Younger (the laird of the island) was expanding the village into the island's capital.

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. The distillery produces some two million litres annually…

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