Moon Import is an Italian independent bottler that has been founded by Pepi Mongiardino in 1980. The company started by releasing a bunch of whiskies. Among them were also some from very small distilleries which has been a novelty at that time. Marco from BAM assumes that the first rum bottlings probably date back to the company’s tenth anniversary. At least he claims that he did not find any earlier releases. Today, their portfolio consists of all sorts of beverages from wines and a great variety of spirits to liquors and even coffee beans.
A common theme running through their releases is that they have all been bottled at either 45% or 46%. Not knowing too many of their releases, I am not in a position to judge the quality of their bottlings. They certainly released a couple of interesting rums in the recent past.
Among the Moon Import rums I have gotten the opportunity to taste are the following:
Cuba
Fiji
Guyana
- Moon Import Demerara Sherry Wood 15YO, 46%
- Moon Import Demerara Sherry Wood 21YO, 46%
- Moon Import Demerara Sherry Wood 26YO, 46%
- Moon Import Demerara Sherry Wood (Versailles) 1985, 46%
- Moon Import Demerara (Versailles) 15YO (1985-2000), 46%
- Moon Import Demerara Enmore (Versailles) Sherrywood 23YO (1988-2010), 46%
- Moon Import Demerara (Versailles – “REV”) Sherrywood 7YO (1994-2001), 46%
- Moon Import Demerara Sherry Wood (Port Mourant) 1975, 46%
- Moon Import Demerara Port Mourant Sherrywood 13YO (1995-2008), 46%
- Moon Import Demerara Uitvlugt Sherrywood 14YO (1998-2013), 46%
Jamaica
- Moon Import Jamaica (Blend) 22YO (1982-2004), 46%
- Moon Import Jamaica “IJHB” 29YO (1983-2012), 46%
- Moon Import Monymusk 1979 10YO (1979-1989), 46%
- Moon Import “I Pappagalli” 10YO (Monymusk) (2002-2012), 46%
- Moon Import “I Pappagalli” 13YO (Monymusk Distillery) (2003-2016), 45%
- Moon Import “Sugar Estates 1949” 12YO (Monymusk Distillery) (2003-2014), 45%
Trinidad
Single Cask Rum 