Ardbeg 1965 24 Year Old - Sestante "White Label"
These "white label" bottles were actually existing William Cadenhead releases that Sestante founder, Ernesto Mainardi, purchased in Scotland and imported to Italy. As he was not the licensed distributor for Cadenhead releases, the labels were changed at the customs office in Cesena upon import to avoid any conflict of interests.
He ordered two batched of this Ardbeg, an initial batch of 240 bottles (twenty of which were labelled as the rare Andy & Norman bottling), and later at the request of various Italian collectors, a further 120 bottles. Whether the whisky is the same for both batches is not known.
Ardbeg
A distillery located on the south coast of the Isle of Islay. It is currently part of the Scotch whisky holdings of LVMH. Despite being closed twice in the latter 20th century, the distillery's heavily-peated single malt has always been highly-regarded.
William Cadenhead
The oldest independent bottling company in Scotland and one of the earliest and foremost advocates for the single malt category, launching its iconic "dumpy" bottlings in 1977. Its flagship brand is the Authentic Collection, supported by a prolific outturn of additional releases each month.
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