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Uitvlugt 1998 Silver Seal 20 Year Old

Lot: 7696

Uitvlugt 1998 Silver Seal 20 Year Old

Winning Bid: £220

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Uitvlugt
Age: 
20 year old
Vintage: 
1998
Region: 
Guyana
Bottler: 
Silver Seal
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
48.8%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
Production method: 
n/a
Base: 
guyana molasses
product Details

Uitvlugt 1998 Silver Seal 20 Year Old

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.

Distilled in 1998 at Uitvlugt on one or a combination of its stills, this was bottled 20 years later from cask #19.

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. In addition, Uitvlugt also received the EHP wooden coffey still and Versailles single wooden pot still when DDL closed Enmore in 1994. These four are all now known as the “Heritage Stills,” and have remained operational since being moved to Diamond in 2000, the last remaining distillery in the country.

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