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This 25 year old Port Ellen from 1979 from the distillery, at 57.4%. Elegant peat, all oily peat, brine and a waxy lemon. Mature peat at its most elegant. Lemon, salt and soft smoke in balance. A relic of Islay’s most storied closure. Old, oily and quietly smoky. A vanishing dram from a legendary closed distillery.
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This official Port Ellen single malt, aged 25 year old, from 1979 and bottled at 57.4%. Just 5280 bottles were filled. Established in 1825 on the Kildalton shore of Islay, Port Ellen was brought to a halt in 1983. Diageo's Special Releases turned it into a cult name.
The barley was heavily peated, dried over smoke from Islay's own peat, distilled in onion shaped copper pot stills on Leorin Lochs water, yielding a clean, mineral smoke with a citric lift. An ex-Bourbon cask shaped it, soft refill oak that lets the smoke lead. At this age the smoke turns gentle and oily, the spirit deep, briny and refined. Coastal warehousing lends a saline, maritime note as the spirit breathes by the sea. Salt air off the Atlantic worked into the casks through long island maturation. Collectors chase these closed era bottles as some of the most prized in Scotch.
At a full 57.4% it is concentrated and oily. Embers of Islay peat carries maritime salt and citrus, with a quiet sweetness from the refill cask. Beneath the peat run lemon, wax and a mineral note. A long, briny finish smoulders to the end. This is spirit from the lost years of Port Ellen, finite for good.
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