Port Ellen 1982 25 Year Old Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask

Port Ellen 32 Year Old 1982 Malts of Scotland

The last bottle in this spring release by Malts of Scotland is one to make you smack your lips in anticipation: a 32 Year Old Port Ellen. Still a feisty 57,9% ABV, so brace yourselves. It was bottled in the Warehouse Diamonds series. This is, by the way, the 35th Port Ellen that I will taste. Lucky me! Camphor and mint come out first on this nose,...

Score 91/100

Port Ellen 24 Year Old 1982 A.D. Rattray

You do not often see Port Ellen on sherry. This bottling was released some 12 years ago by Dewar Rattray (A.D. Rattray nowadays) by order of the Belgian importer The Nectar. I presume it was the part of a cask as only 168 bottles were available. The angels are not that greedy. Sweet nose with clear influences of the sea. Think seaweed, salt, peat...

Score 92/100

Port Ellen 1983 Malts of Scotland

Again, I'm trying an independent bottling of Port Ellen, this time from the well-known and respected German Indie Malts of Scotland. This one was distilled in the last year of operation and matured in a sherry butt. By the looks of it, that must have been a re-fill sherry butt. A very pale Port Ellen indeed! I know I'm repeating myself when I say...

Score 92/100

Port Ellen Chieftain's 1982 25 Year Old

The Nose: Pears and pear cider. A honeyed sweetness, round, sweet cream and peat...less peat than I was expecting but it is there, softened and restrained, just showing the more elegant side of decayed vegetation. There are notes of wood smoke, a little tiny touch of vinegar and subtle, subtle mint hints. The Palate: Incredible, smooth, exquisite...

Score 98/100