Product description
Signatory Vintage, founded in 1988 by Andrew and Brian Symington, is a leading independent publisher and distributor of whisky.
Few people remember that Symington started with just £100,000 and nearly went bankrupt several times in the first five years of operation. The name "Signatory" means Signatory and Symington originally intended to hire someone famous to sign each release. The first cask of whisky bottled by Signatory was Glenlivet 1968, but before the company found the right signatory, there was no trace of the whisky. The Bowmore presented here, distilled on 27th May 1974, spent over four decades in hogshead cask no. 4435 and was bottled on 31st January 2017 at cask strength (49.6% abv) in the Rare Reserve series, in an edition limited to 183 bottles.
Nose : light smoke, rum-soaked raisins, mango, cantaloupe, grapefruit, papaya, grilled asparagus, lemongrass, lapsang souchong tea, notes of pepper and oak.
Palate : peat smoke, honey, caramel, tropical fruit salad, banana cake, white pepper, smoked fish, salted almonds, lemongrass, a pinch of ginger and oak.
Finish : quite long, with notes of tropical fruits, toffee, vanilla salt, herbal mix, white pepper and peat smoke in the background.