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Demerara Rum 1980 Samaroli

Lot: 6026786

Demerara Rum 1980 Samaroli

Winning Bid: £2,995
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 16 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
see lot description
Age: 
n/a
Vintage: 
1980
Region: 
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Bottler: 
Samaroli
Cask Type: 
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Bottled Strength: 
45%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Production method: 
n/a
Base: 
guyana molasses
product Details

Demerara Rum 1980 Samaroli

This was produced during the early period of the nationalisation of the Guyana sugar trade by the country’s government, which saw it acquire a controlling stake in the country’s three remaining distilling companies. It managed these using a holding company called the Guyana Liquor Corporation, and its portfolio included the Diamond, Enmore, Uitvlugt and briefly, Versailles distilleries (they closed the latter in 1978). One of its first orders of business was to begin laying down stock with a view to bottlings its own brands, which it eventually did in 1992, launching its now iconic El Dorado 15 year old. In the meantime it continued distilling bulk rum for independent bottlers, resulting in a wealth of spectacular releases like this. These may contain single marque rums, or a blend of various marques from the country’s many historic stills, all of which are still in use today at Diamond, the sole remaining distillery. Known as the “heritage stills,” they are Uitvlugt’s historic four-column French Savalle stills, the Versailles and Port Mourant wooden pot stills, and the Enmore wooden coffey still, the oldest and last of its kind in the world.

Distilled in 1980 and bottled in Scotland in 2000 by Samaroli.

Samaroli is perhaps Italy's most revered independent bottler of Scotch whisky, but he produced some outstanding rum as well. According to Emmanuel Dron's Collecting Scotch Whisky, of all the alternative spirits to whisky, which included cognac and armagnac as well, this very rum is the one he was most proud of.

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