Port Ellen 1980-1997 - 16 Year Old - Signatory Vintage - Single Cask 89/589/19

INFORMATION

Port Ellen 1980 - 1997. 16 Year Old. Bottled by Signatory Vintage. Cask numbers 89/589/19. One of 352 bottles. 70cl. 59%.

DISTILLERY:Port Ellen

DISTILLERY STATUS:Closed

Bottle ABV:59%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

Bottle PRODUCED:352

BOTTLER:Signatory Vintage

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK NUMBER:89/589/19

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Islay

DISTILLED YEAR:1980

BOTTLING DATE::1997

AGE:16

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.