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Bowmore 1969 Single Cask #6635 for Edoardo Giaccone / Fecchio & Frassa Import

Lot: 278276

Bowmore 1969 Single Cask #6635 for Edoardo Giaccone / Fecchio & Frassa Import

Winning Bid: £8,200
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 38 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Bowmore
Age: 
N/A
Vintage: 
1969
Region: 
Islay
Bottler: 
Official for Fecchio & Frassa
Cask Type: 
Sherry Cask
Bottled Strength: 
58%
Bottle Size: 
75cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Bowmore 1969 Single Cask #6635 for Edoardo Giaccone / Fecchio & Frassa Import

Islay’s oldest working distillery, Bowmore was established in 1779 and is now regarded as one of the most popular malts not only on Islay, but in the whole of Scotland. The distillery was acquired by Stanley P. Morrison in 1963, ushering in an era of iconic single malts, including the legendary Black Bowmore, credited by many as the genesis of whisky collecting, bottled in 1993. The distillery was bought under the control Suntory the year after they had been stakeholders since 1989), and it remains one of the most collectible brands in Scotch whisky today. Bowmore is one of the few remaining Scottish distilleries to use its own floor maltings, providing them with 40% of their requirements.

This is part of an incredibly rare series of single cask Bowmore bottled in the late 1970s for customers of Fecchio & Frassa Import in Italy. Distilled in 1969 and matured in sherry cask #66354, this is one of two casks bottled to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Edoardo's Giacconne's Whiskyteca in Salo. 

Giaccone was something of a trailblazer, and was importing specially bottled official single malts for his bar in the late 1960s. He opened the famous venue in 1958, and it has been called a few different things over the years, including Garten, Edward & Edward, and La Taverna del Comandante.

Edoardo set the stage for later legendary bottlers such as Silvano Samaroli, Nadi Fiori and Ernesto Mainardi. Moon Import founder, Pepi Mongiardino said, "he was the first person I visited" when he became the distributor for Bruichladdich in 1981. Giaccone did not have any of his own labels or series, but was the first person in Italy to have official bottlings produced exclusively for him. Through his bar, Italy was treated to exclusive releases from Clynelish, Bowmore, Dalmore, Highland Park and even Jack Daniel's.

Bottled in April 1978, this is bottle number 43 of 300.

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