Description

A 10 year old bottle of Laphroiag whisky. Bottled by Moon Import as part of their In the Pink series. Distilled in 1990 it was then aged in cask number 11684, before being bottled in 2000. A run of just 320 bottles, this is bottle number 124.

Moon Import was founded in Genoa, by Pepi Mongiardino in 1980 and quickly became famous as an importer and distributor of high quality wines and spirits. Heeding the advice of the late, great, Silvano Samaroli, he opted to be “free from the big companies,” and became the official distributor for Islay’s Bruichladdich, and later Tamnavulin and Tullibardine, preferring however to procure casks from private owners. Mongiardino bottled his first whisky in 1982, titled the Half Moon series. Always beautifully labelled, Pepi is acclaimed for designing the packaging for Moon Import bottles himself, using images found in old books. The famous Birds, Animals, Costumes and Sea series were all labelled using pictures he discovered in an 18th century German encyclopaedia. These iconic designs, coupled with the quality of the liquid saw Moon Import steadily grow in popularity, and with the help of Intertrade founder, Nadi Fiori, they exported their first bottles to Japan in 2001.

Colour: White wine

Nose:
Strong hospital-like, aspirin, iodine, a trace of tar, sea breeze, smoked fish, wet wool and hay, lemon zest, salty almonds, a pinch of vanilla and peat smoke.

Taste:
Slightly alcoholic, peat smoke, salty breeze, iodine, lemons, grapefruit, brown sugar, vanilla, pine needles, lemongrass and oak.

Finish:
Rather long, with notes of peat smoke, iodine, lemons, bitter orange, white pepper, a small amount of resin and oak.