Moon Import was founded by Pepi Mongiardino in 1980 and he bottled his first whisky in 1982. Always beautifully labelled, Pepi is acclaimed for designing the packaging for Moon Import bottles himself, often using images found in old books. These iconic designs, coupled with the quality of the liquid saw Moon Import steadily grow in popularity. The company is still going strong, and their early releases are some of the brightest gems in any whisky collection.

This is one of three single cask Glen Garioch in the In the Pink series, distilled in 1966 and bottled in 2000

Colour: surprisingly light (straw). Nose: very minty and medicinal. Camphor, tiger balsam, eucalyptus. Very fresh. Hints of marzipan, fresh almond. Very special, very interesting, and very different. Mouth: fresh and again these medicinal notes, certainly from a good shot of heavily peated malt. Quite some white fruit too, but much less than last time. Another batch? Hints of hydrocarbons and stone. Medium long finish, on stony flavours. Not a total high flyer, but it still deserves 88 points on my scale

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