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Port Ellen 1970 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail

ABV: 40% - Size: 75cl

Port Ellen Connoisseurs Choice 1970 17 year old

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This Port Ellen Scotch whisky is a great example of the distillery's output. This is an independent bottling by the respected whisky company Gordon & Macphail. The volume (or ABV) of this whisky is 40 percent, which is common for blended Scotch although many single malts whiskies are bottled at higher strengths these days. The bottle size is 75cl.

About the whisky

Distillery:: Port Ellen Distillery
Bottler:: Gordon & Macphail
Region:: Islay
Category:: Scotch Whisky
Style:: Single Malt

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Port Ellen 28 Year Old 1982 for QV.ID

I prevously praised the Coal Ila and Bowmore that were released by Belgian bottler QV.ID, but this was the first release by Koen: a 28 Year Old Port Ellen. Initially, the nose is very sweet with a lot of vanilla and young apples. I thought this was a sherry cask? Some marzipan and chestnut, but the sherry remains quiet. That doesn’t mean the nose...

Score 91/100

Port Ellen 24 Year Old 1982 AD Rattray

A.D. Rattray was able to secure three sisters casks from Port Ellen from 1982, sherry casks #2463, #2464 (of which a part was bottled for the Belgian bottler The Nectar) and #2466. I wonder if they still have cask #2465 in their warehouse. Anyway, let us get to it. Ooh, this is a very nice nose in which the sherry and peat walk hand in hand along...

Score 92/100

Port Ellen 16 Year Old 1980 Merengali Import

This is another one of those golden oldies that has spent 24 years in the bottle now, more than it ever spent in the cask. And it’s from the legendary Port Ellen distillery, bottled by Gordon & Macphail and imported to Italy by Merengali. Thanks to my buddy Manny I was able to secure a sample of this nowhere-to-be-found bottle. The nose is...

Score 84/100

Port Ellen 25 Year Old 1982 Douglas Laing Old & Rare

The Platinum Selection from Douglas Laing is also known as Old & Rare. This Port Ellen has been bottled about six years ago, before that it had matured for a quarter century. Smoke and citrus, those are the two main aromas that I get on this creamy nose. Then something that reminds me of Mandarine Napoléon (Belgian mandarin liqueur), softly...

Score 90/100