Product description
Silvano Samaroli is considered by most connoisseurs to be a whisky publisher deserving of the highest respect, even a visionary. He began his career in the whisky market in 1968 and managed the company for the next four decades. Most of the early editions were highly rated and are very rarely seen at auction. In 2008, Samaroli left the management of the company in the hands of Antonio Bleve, with whose family he had collaborated for years, but he himself played an active role until his death in February 2017.
The Teaninich presented here (the master's personal selection), distilled in 1959, spent 22 years in oak barrels, the contents of which translated into 300 bottles of whisky with a strength of 46% abv.
To fully appreciate the uniqueness of this whisky, let us recall a few key facts from the history of Teaninich Distillery. In 1946, the stills were replaced with larger ones, and in 1962 another, second pair was installed. In 1970, a new distillery was built on the property, the so-called "Teaninich A Side", equipped with six stills and until 1984 it worked in parallel with the original, called "Teaninich B Side"; in that year, the decision was made to close it. As we can see, our Teaninich 1959 comes not only from a different era, but from a different distillery, a distillery that is connected to today only by name and location and which passed into history almost forty years ago.