Port Ellen 12 Year Old Queen's Visit to Distillery in 1980

Port Ellen 1978 Port Ellen 23 Year Old, Douglas Laing OMC

from a purchased sample Nose: Easy and fairly pleasant enough. Some coastal creamy quality, with a touch of ashy peat. It's so quiet! There's a heap of lemon and some other apply, acidic fruit. Linseed oil, violets, wax, and then there's something just slightly putrid. Not awful, but it flits in and out. Not really getting the sherry in this. A...

Score 87/100

Port Ellen 1979/2011 32 Year Old 11th Annual Release

Port Ellen distillery was founded in 1825 on the southern shore of Islay by Alexander Kerr Mackay. Between 1825 and 1836 ownership of the distillery changed a couple of times, but after John Ramsay was granted a lease on Port Ellen in 1836 it was operated by him and his descendants until the distillery was sold to the Port Ellen Distillery Co....

Score 88/100

Port Ellen 26 Year Old 1983 Milano Festival 2009

How many whisky festivals have ever bottled a Port Ellen, I wonder. Not many, I presume. But in 2009 the visitors of the Milano Whisky Festival were able to purchase this 26 years old Port Ellen at cask strength. Something like this would be impossible today, for the simple fact that it would be prohibitively expensive. Sturdy nose on white fruit...

Score 86/100

Port Ellen 25 Year Old Release 4 (2004)

Slightly darker in colour than the Glenmorangie Traditional. Lighter than /Chardonnay/ coloured. Wasabi spicyness on the nose with a touch of ammonia and pineau des charentes. First touch of my tongue is all spice, tingling on the tongue, leather, bearskin rugs, fireplace, tobacco, teak wood, bourbon in a crystal decanter, and bush; 1969 all over...

Score 90/100