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Port Ellen 1979 - 2006. 26 Year Old. Bottled by Douglas Laing for their Old Malt Cask series. Cask number 3048. One of 514 bottles matured in a Refill Butt. 700ml. 50%. In presentation box.
A single cask Port Ellen 1979 26-year-old bottled without colouring or chill filtration by Douglas Laing in 2006 for their Old Malt Cask series. This delicious old PE came from single cask 3048, a refill sherry butt, and was bottled at the OMC / Douglas Laing standard strength of 50%. These 1970s refill sherried PEs tend to be turfy and medicinal, with prominent bandages, sea spray and wet burnt wood, and usually some meaty flavours and tarry rope notes as well.
One of the great lost distilleries on Islay, Port Ellen was little-known in its lifetime with only a handful of official bottlings produced before the distillery closed in 1983 as part of Diageo forerunner Scottish Malt Distilleries’ swingeing cuts in response to the great whisky lake of the 1970s and 1980s.
Later rediscovered by malt fans thanks to fine independent bottlings from the likes of Gordon & MacPhail, Cadenhead’s and Signatory Vintage, Port Ellen’s reputation mushroomed through the 1990s and 2000s as sensational Rare Malts bottlings were followed by a string of legendary Diageo Special Releases and dozens of superb single cask bottlings from Douglas Laing.
In 2017 the whisky world was stunned when Diageo announced that work was taking place to bring Port Ellen distillery back from the dead - the new Port Ellen distillery finally recommenced production in March 2024.
Founded in the late 1940s by Fred Douglas Laing Sr, the Douglas Laing company spent decades as whisky blenders and exporters before Fred Laing’s sons Stewart and Fred Jr introduced the highly influential Old Malt Cask single malt range in 1998. The McGibbon’s Provenance and Old & Rare Platinum series followed soon afterwards, establishing Douglas Laing as one of Scotland’s finest independent bottlers.
In 2013 Stewart Laing left the business, taking Old Malt Cask and Old & Rare to his new company Hunter Laing, while Fred Laing Jr was joined by his daughter Cara and her husband Chris Leggatt from Morrison Bowmore, who left the business in 2023. The Old Particular and Extra Old Particular ranges were introduced to replace Old Malt Cask and Old & Rare, and the company has since moved into distilling with the purchase of Strathearn distillery in 2019 and the construction of Clutha distillery in Glasgow.
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| £525.00 | 2nd April 2025 | 20:17 | |
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