Silvano Samaroli founded Samaroli in Rome in 1968, and it became one of the first bottlers to promote cask strength whisky, bottled straight from the cask with no water added.1,2,3 After a decade spent mainly importing, it released its first whisky series in 1979.1,3,4
Its own history calls it the first independent Scotch whisky bottler that was neither Scottish nor English; such firms buy casks from distilleries and bottle them under their own name.1,2,3 That first series was a specially labelled set of bottlings from William Cadenhead's, a Scottish bottler.
In 2008 Antonio Bleve took over the day-to-day running of the company.3,4,6 Silvano Samaroli kept an active role in the business until he died on 16 February 2017.3,4,6
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