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Glenlossie 1966 Moon Import / The Costumes

Lot: 6142581

Glenlossie 1966 Moon Import / The Costumes

Winning Bid: £900
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 19 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Glenlossie
Age: 
n/a
Vintage: 
1966
Region: 
Speyside
Bottler: 
Moon Import
Cask Type: 
Hogshead
Bottled Strength: 
46%
Bottle Size: 
75cl
product Details

Glenlossie 1966 Moon Import / The Costumes

Glenlossie became part of DCL (now Diageo) in 1919, who made it part of their Haig stable in the 1930s. The distillery has always been hugely important to the Diageo blends, and excepting the staff-only Manager's Dram, the Flora & Fauna is the only distillery bottling, and one of the few from the series still in production. Independent bottlings are more common, but are still decidedly rare.

Moon Import was founded by Pepi Mongiardino in 1980. 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. 

One of 12 single cask bottlings that form The Costumes series, all of which were bottled in 1988. This was the company's most prolific year to that date, with The Sea series also released, making a total of over 7000 bottles.

One of 264 bottles, from hogshead cask #3778.

 

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