Bowmore 2004 / 22 Year Old / Myth and Folklore / The Whisky Exchange Islay Whisky

70cl / 51.8% / The Whisky Exchange – Named for one of the great ghost stories in Scotch whisky, where the Islay crofter Lachlan Bàn was so spooked by the sight of a headless horseman on a stormy night that he threw away an unexplained bottle of whisky upon his return, fearing it an ill-omened thing. Luckily, this rare independent bottling of a 22-year-old Bowmore is a rather less fearsome spirit, possessed instead by the distillery’s classic notes of tropical fruit, sea air and beach-bonfire smoke.