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Port Ellen 1982 - 2012. 30 Year Old. Bottled by Ian Macleod for their Chieftain's series. Cask number 1518. One of only 308 bottles matured in a Hogshead. 70cl. 50.1%. In presentation box.
A single cask Port Ellen 1982 30-year-old Islay single malt whisky bottled in 2012 without colouring or chill filtration by indie bottlers Ian Macleod for their Chieftain’s Choice series.
Distilled in May 1982 during the original distillery’s penultimate year of production, Cask 1518 was a single hogshead cask bottled in October 2012, yielding a generous 308 bottles at an impressive natural cask strength of 50.1%. These late vintage Port Ellens were often filled to quite inactive wood, ageing very slowly but developing superbly between 20-30 years old.
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 1933, Ian Macleod Distillers are rather low profile despite being the 10th-largest Scotch whisky company in the world. The company is one of the largest suppliers of own-brand whiskies to bulk markets, with a diverse range of proprietary and independent bottling brands including Smokehead, Chieftain’s Choice and Isle of Skye. The company also produces a variety of gins, vodkas and rums including Edinburgh Gin.
Ian Macleod acquired the Glengoyne distillery and the Langs whisky brands in 2003, changing the company name to Ian Macleod Distillers. Tamdhu distillery was purchased in 2011 and relaunched in 2013, while in October 2017 it was announced that Ian Macleod Distillers had acquired and were rebuilding the lost Lowland distillery Rosebank - a stunning coup that gladdened the hearts of whisky fans the world over. After an extensive refurbishment, production at Rosebank recommenced in summer 2023.
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| £500.00 | 6th August 2025 | 08:04 PM | |
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