Description
A 33 year old Tobermory whisky. Bottled by Moon Import as part of their 1795 Private Stock series. Distilled in 1972, it was then aged in cask number 09, before being bottled in 2005. A run of just 960 bottles, this is bottle number 247.
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: Oloroso sherry.
Nose:
Absolutely round and balanced first impression. Tobacco, rum, balsamic vinegar, ham, salty and fatty sherry, vanilla and smoky leather – the finest quality!
Taste:
Notes of elderberry, nettle, balsamic, tobacco, caramel, black coffee and licorice, caraway, clove jam. Plum juice, sweet cherry. Spice prickles the mouth and leathery, musty tobacco forms. Through the throat to the nose comes again smoke, musty and slightly greasy. Dark chocolate.
Finish:
Long with notes of tobacco, oak, black pepper and peat smoke.
