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Imperial 1963 R.W. Duthie for Corti Brothers / Narsai's Restaurant

Lot: 344244

Imperial 1963 R.W. Duthie for Corti Brothers / Narsai's Restaurant

Winning Bid: £2,600

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Imperial
Age: 
N/A
Vintage: 
1963
Region: 
Speyside
Bottler: 
R.W. Duthie
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
92 US Proof
Bottle Size: 
75cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Imperial 1963 R.W. Duthie for Corti Brothers / Narsai's Restaurant 

This is part of a much sought-after series of independent bottlings produced by Aberdeen's R.W. Duthie for the Corti Brothers of Sacramento, California. R.W. Duthie was a subsidiary of Wm. Cadenhead, and also bottled esteemed independent distributors like Samaroli at the time. The Corti Brothers were a family grocer business founded in 1947 by Frank and Gino. Frank's son Darrell was the one to introduce a specialist spirits knowledge to the business, and they began getting their own Scotch whisky bottled for them in 1978.

In 1983, the Corti Brothers partnered with Narsai's Restaurtant in Kensington, CA to produce a limited run of collaborative bottlings. This is one of them, and was selected by Narsai M. David and Darrel Corti.

Built in the last years on the 19th century, Imperial is a distillery with a sadly chequered history, spending almost as much time in mothballs as it did distilling. Its longest period of production came between 1955 and 1985 under the ownership of DCL (now Diageo). Allied Distillers bought it in 1989, opening it again two years later, but only for another seven. It was under their tenure that the only distillery bottling of its single malt appeared, but thankfully a number of increasingly sought after independent releases like this have been produced over the years. Imperial was demolished in 2013 and the site now houses the new distillery, Dalmunach.

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