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June 27, 2022
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Little Duos, right now middle-aged
and actually previous Port Ellen
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Let’s keep in mind that Port Ellen Distillery will reopen proper subsequent yr! So no extra unhappy glances by way of the marginally opaque home windows of the Maltings. I’ve wished to pick out a sparring accomplice that was distilled even earlier than the Queen visited the Distillery (or maybe quite the Maltings), in 1980, and selected this quite younger 1976 from Wilson & Morgan’s that, quite bizarrely, we hadn’t tried but (however I bear in mind I had discovered a stash of bottles in a wee store in Sienna, a very long time in the past). Image: on the PE Maltings, 2005.
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Port Ellen 18 yo 1976/1995 (46%, Wilson & Morgan, Barrel Choice) 
Later 1976s by Wilson & Morgan, bottled in 1998, had been glowingly splendid in my guide (all WF 93), so our hopes are very excessive. Let’s go chase new rubber boots and previous tarry ropes in case you agree… Color: straw. Nostril: on the spot tarry delights, with certainly new wellies (massive sizes!), new tyres or ‘visiting a Tesla service centre’, then smoked fish, engine oil, stale seawater at low tide, plus notes of fresh-cracked pepper that may often quite belong to Talisker, however there. Mouth: all of the glory of youthful Port Ellens, nonetheless stuffed with lemons and grapefruits, ridden with notes of recent putty and plasticine, after which overrun by tar and rubber, in a fairly Michelin approach. All that will stay a bit of simplistic, really, with candy lemony notes that may are inclined to combat the smokiness, however I nonetheless simply find it irresistible. This, chilled and with smoked salmon, ho-ho! End: not everlasting as a Port Ellen, a bit of bitter maybe (tarragon?) however the typical plasticine and putty within the aftertaste do signal this very pretty one. Feedback: glorious, if maybe not completely legendary.
SGP:567 – 89 factors. |
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Port Ellen 1980/2021 (59.6%, OB, Prima & Ultima Third Launch, refill American Oak Hogshead and ex-Sherry European Oak However, 555 bottles, 2022) 
Mentioned to be the oldest Port Ellen ever bottled (it is 41) and stemming from the 2 final casks of 1980, each having spent all their lives on Islay. I’ve already had a sip of this one and have been quite impressed, fairly unsurprisingly. Color: gentle gold. Nostril: the whole lot got here collectively. I imply, it isn’t Web page + Plant + Jones + Bonham, it is Led Zeppelin, see what I imply? Which, by the way, makes it a bit of onerous to explain, as not an aroma would even begin to get lost. I imply, it is Port Ellen (bravo, S., that was actually useful.) With water: not a single signal of ‘ageing’, this as coherent and vibrant as it will have been at ten, besides that tropical fruits are actually coming out, particularly maracuja. This nostril is completely extraordinary, tight as an incredible bone-dry chenin blanc or a verdejo from Rueda in Spain. Might I like to recommend a Belondrade Y Lurton? Mouth (neat): huge, even pungent, ultra-tight and centered, on smoked grasses and bitter citrus, plus rubber, tar and dry oils. Surgically Port Ellen. With water: I do know that is neither the place nor the second, however I prefer it that they would not have put these previous glories in roughly aesthetically pleasing crystal decanters that solely our previous fur-wearing aunts would really discover, effectively, aesthetical. Aside from that, I consider that is Bacchus’s personal whisky. End: medium, sublimely full of life. A little bit pepper within the aftertaste , however no correct oak spices in sight. Feedback: I can not not consider an incredible white wine when making an attempt this Port Ellen. Wine freaks ahoy; in any case, a really latest 75cl bottle of Romanée Conti could be significantly costlier. In any case, one of many fruitiest and grandest Port Ellens I’ve ever tried.
SGP:566 – 94 factors. |
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