Bowmore ARC-54: Tasting Notes & Review

Forget everything you heard about the next whisky downturn; the party is still very much alive. At least that was the feeling in the ballroom at Raffles London at The OWO, where Bowmore and Aston Martin were in celebratory mood to launch ARC-54, a £71,000 ($92,000) single malt Scotch whisky housed in a hypercar-inspired decanter.

It may have been the same night the Scotch industry entered a new era of US tariffs, but the Islay distillery, and Suntory group as a whole, were…