Longrow 1987 Samaroli / Millennium Handwritten Label

First distilled in 1973, Longrow is the peated single malt produced at Springbank distillery. Although very popular, Longrow remains an elusive whisky, with only 100-150 casks of it filled at the distillery each year. Early champions of this spirit included the legendary Italian bottler, Silvano Samaroli, who bought and bottled a number of famous casks from the inaugural vintage, and is credited by many with a good deal of the brand's success. It remains revered by connoisseurs to this day.

This is one of a number of Longrow 1987 vintages released by Samaroli, many of which were single casks.

Silvano Samaroli was an early champion of the peated single malt from Springbank distillery, and its surging popularity since his earliest bottlings in the mid-1980s is viewed as testament to his visionary outlook on the whisky trade.

This was drawn from single cask #141 in 1999, and was bottled to celebrate the new Millennium, with a label in homage to the Handwritten Labels series of bottlings Samaroli producedin the 1980s.