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Enmore 1977 Silver Seal 32 Year Old 1.5 Litre

Lot: 6028296

Enmore 1977 Silver Seal 32 Year Old 1.5 Litre

Winning Bid: £3,000

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Enmore
Age: 
32 year old
Vintage: 
1977
Region: 
Guyana
Bottler: 
Silver Seal
Cask Type: 
n/a
Bottled Strength: 
64.4%
Bottle Size: 
1.5 litre
Distillery Status: 
Closed
Production method: 
two-column Wooden Coffey Still
Base: 
guyana Molasses
product Details

Enmore 1977 Silver Seal 32 Year Old 1.5 Litre

A Demerara rum from Enmore distillery in Guyana, bottled by Silver Seal for their Wildlife Series No.1. 

Silver Seal was founded by Ernesto Mainardi in 2000. This was Mainardi's second bottling company after the esteemed Sestane in 1979. Both companies were sold to Massimo Righi, proprietor of Whisky Antique, in 2010. Since then the company has produced a steady stream of high quality rum to add to its sought after back-catalogue.

This is one of just 60 magnums bottled.

The Enmore sugar estate was established by Edward Henry Porter in the early 19th century after he inherited and converted his father’s cotton plantation on the east bank of the Demerara river. Once one of many in the area, by the time the government in Guyana had begun to nationalise and consolidate the country’s rum production in 1974, it was one of only four remaining. The traditional still at Enmore was the historic two-column wooden coffey still, constructed back in 1880. Modelled almost exactly after the first continuous still patented by Aeneas Coffey in 1832, it is constructed from Greenheart wood, which is native to Guyana and is mostly used in boat-building due to its ability to remain strong while constantly wet. The wood is also well suited to distilling, stripping spirit of sulphites in the same manner that copper does. Enmore also received the a single wooden pot still when the Versailles distillery closed in 1978. When Enmore was shuttered in 1994, both of these were moved to Uitvlugt, and are now in operation as “Heritage Stills” at Diamond, the last remaining rum producer in the country.

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