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Jura 1988 Moon Import / The Last Fetish

Lot: 6143912

Jura 1988 Moon Import / The Last Fetish

Winning Bid: £300

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Jura
Age: 
N/A
Vintage: 
1988
Region: 
Island
Bottler: 
Moon Import
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
46%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
product Details

Jura 1988 Moon Import​ / The Last Fetish

Moon Import was founded by Pepi Mongiardino in 1980 and he bottled his first whisky in 1982. Always beautifully labelled, Pepi is acclaimed for designing the packaging for Moon Import bottles himself, often using images found in old books. These iconic designs, coupled with the quality of the liquid saw Moon Import steadily grow in popularity. The company is still going strong, and their early releases are some of the brightest gems in any whisky collection.

This Jura was distilled in 1988 and bottled by the Italian importers in 2011. Part of The Last Fetish series, all of which feature shoe artworks by long-time collaborator, the artist Nadia Pini. Matured in hogshead #1352, one of 265 bottles.

The Isle of Jura is one of the most isolated in the Hebridean archipelago, and by all logical accounts an unusual place to build a distillery. However, the historic site was re-opened in the 1960s, in part to provide jobs to what was a declining population at the time. The rebuilding of the distillery was backed by blenders Charles Mackinlay & Co, so like Bruichladdich, despite the island being covered in peat, it produced an un-peated spirit to meet the needs of their blends. This continued into the 1990s when Whyte & Mackay became its owners, although they did eventually introduce some peated malt to their distilling, launching the Jura Superstition in 2003.

 

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