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Bowmore and Aston Martin put the final flourish on their partnership with the creation of the second and final release in their ARC series, called ‘Bowmore ARC-54’. The bottle dilutes the exclusivity in a 54-year-old whisky from the famous Islay distillery with a hand-blown design inspired by the avant-garde Aston Martin Valkyrie luxury design.
Distilled in November 1968, this rare and extraordinary spirit pays homage to the fact that malt whisky excels over time in cask, ageing like no other to capture Bowmore’s definitive multi-dimensional character’.
The whisky manages to dilute within itself infinite layers of flavour due to its ageing for over half a century in European oak sherry butts and American oak casks within the hallowed walls of the vaults of No. 1.
The whiskies were paired for 18 months before bottling at 44.3% ABV. Meanwhile, the design in which the blend rests is inspired by the aerodynamic shape of the Valkyrie, Aston Martin’s ‘hypercar’ that takes its cues from F1. The bottle is closed by a magnetic closure system, also influenced by the Aston Martin design team.
This latest return to the Bowmore-Aston Martin circuit is being launched as the follow-up to its ARC-52 bottling, a 52-year-old single malt distilled in 1969 of which only 100 exclusive units were released. The ARC-54 will be a little easier to track down, at least in theory, with 130 bottles to be made available for sale worldwide through select retailers.
