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Port Ellen 1978 - 34 Year Old - Special Release 2014 - 14th Release


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Port Ellen 1978 - 34 Year Old - Special Release 2014 - 14th Release
Port Ellen 1978 - 34 Year Old - Special Release 2014 - 14th Release
LOT ID: 0223-708

Winning Bid
£1,950.00

End Date: 22 Mar 2023
Port Ellen 1978-2014 - 34 Year Old - 14th Release
Port Ellen 1978-2014 - 34 Year Old - 14th Release
LOT ID: 305

Winning Bid
£2,150.00

End Date: 20 Oct 2021

Port Ellen 1978 - 34 Year Old - Special Release 2014 - 14th Release

Port Ellen 1978 - 2014. 35 Year Old. Bottled by Diageo for their Special Releases. One of 2,964 bottles. 70cl. 56.5%.

Distillery:  Port Ellen

Distillery Status:  Closed

Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Region: Islay

Distilled Year: 1978

Bottling Year: 2014

Age: 35

Bottles Produced: 2,964

Limited Edition: yes

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 70cl / 700ml

ABV: 56.5%

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 is currently scheduled to commence production in 2023.

Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.

This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.