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Glen Garioch Coilltean 1975 Samaroli / Flowers 1990

Lot: 319612

Glen Garioch Coilltean 1975 Samaroli / Flowers 1990

Winning Bid: £2,600
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 32 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Glen Garioch
Age: 
N/A
Vintage: 
1975
Region: 
Highland
Bottler: 
R.W. Duthie for Samaroli
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
57%
Bottle Size: 
75cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Glen Garioch Coilltean 1975 Samaroli / Flowers 1990

This Coilltean is an eastern Highland malt that has been confirmed to be a Glen Garioch, bottled for Silvano Samaroli by R.W Duthie and Co. Samaroli admitted that he bought too much Glen Garioch of this vintage, and the Coilltean brand was an easy way to give him greater diversity of labels.

Glen Garioch is one of the oldest distilleries in Scotland. For most of the 20th century it was self-sufficient, malting its own barley using peat from Pitsligo, giving it a unique smoky character. In fact, in 1968 it was short-listed by then-owners DCL, to convert to heavily peated production in order to make up for a shortfall on Islay caused by a drought. In an odd twist of fate, the decision was instead made to re-open Brora for the job, and close Glen Garioch down. Morrison Bowmore then sprang to its rescue, restarting production in 1973. The maltings and distillery were shut down again by Beam Suntory in 1995, and only the latter resumed operations two years later, with contemporary Glen Garioch becoming an un-peated single malt. These pre-1995 vintages are worth investigating while you can.

Samaroli is perhaps Italy's most revered independent bottler of Scotch whisky. With an impeccable taste in single cask whiskies, and an eye for aesthetics (if not English spelling at times!), he is regarded by many as a visionary. Many of his bottles now occupy deserved sports on the pantheon of whisky greats.

The Flowers series was bottled in 1990, and is a revival of the aesthetic used on Samaroli's acclaimed (if cumbersomely named) 'The Never Bottled Top Quality Whisky Series' from 1981, his first independent series following the Cadenhead's collaboration a few years before. That, and this Flowers series, all feature labels with hand-drawn art nouveau illustrations by Silvano himself.

Bottle number 299 of 480. 

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