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Enmore 1996 Silver Seal / Wildlife No.1

Lot: 6031014

Enmore 1996 Silver Seal / Wildlife No.1

Winning Bid: £675

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Uitvlugt
Vintage: 
1996
Region: 
Guyana
Bottler: 
Silver Seal
Bottled Strength: 
46%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
Production method: 
two-column wooden coffey still
Base: 
guyana molasses
product Details

Enmore 1996 Silver Seal / Wildlife 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.

A 1996 vintage rum from the Enmore still during its time at Uitvlugt distillery. This was bottled in 2007 as part of the Wildlife Seires No.1. 

Uitvlugt, pronounced [eye-flut] was located on the west bank of the Demerara river near the Dutch-established town of the same name. The distillery was established at the end of the 18th century and remained Dutch-owned until the government in Guyana began to nationalise and consolidate the country’s rum production in 1974. Thereafter it became part of the portfolio of Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL), who closed it down at the end of 1999. Uitvlugt originally operated double wooden pot stills, however these were replaced by a four column French Savalle still in the early 1920s. A double wooden pot still was reinstalled in the 1950s however, moved there from the closed Port Mourant distillery. This rum however was distilled on the historic two-column wooden coffey still from Enmore, constructed back in 1880. Modelled almost exactly after the first continuous still patented by Aeneas Coffey in 1832, it is built from Greenheart wood which is native to Guyana and 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. The Enmore still was moved to Uitvlugt along with the Versailles single wooden pot still when DDL closed Enmore distillery in 1994. It remains in operation to this day, as one of the “Heritage Stills” at Diamond, the country’s last remaining rum producer.

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