INFORMATION
Port Ellen 1979 - 2005. 25 Year Old. Bottled for Diageo Special Releases in 2005. 5th Release. One of 5280 bottles. 70cl. 57.4%.
DISTILLERY:Port Ellen
DISTILLERY STATUS:Closed
Bottle ABV:57.4%
Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml
Bottle PRODUCED:5,280
BOTTLER:Distillery Bottling
SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland
LIMITED EDITION:yes
CASK TYPE:Single Malt
REGION:Islay
DISTILLED YEAR:1979
BOTTLING DATE::2005
AGE:25
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.
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