Port Ellen 30 Year Old Douglas Laing 60th Anniversary Islay single malt Scotch whisky. 1979 vintage single refill hogshead bottles 2009. This, the fourth release of the series is a 30 year old Port Ellen presented in a special gold embossed wooden box. The bottle & packaging are simply stunning. 234 numbered bottles. Port Ellen Port Ellen Distillery was established by Alexander K. Mackay on the southern coast of the Isle of Islay at Port Ellen in 1825. Port Ellen was a malt whisky distillery but closed in 1983 & whilst the distillery buildings remain Port Ellen drum maltings occupy part of the site & participates in Feis Ile, the annual Islay Festival of Malt & Music. Most recent official bottling of Port Ellen single malt whisky was the Port Ellen 11th Release. During the winter of 1823-24 James Fox tested his newly designed spirit safe at Port Ellen Distillery prior to its introduction in all Scottish licenced distilleries by 1825 in order to comply with enactment of the Excise Act of 1823. Thus Port Ellen Distillery was the first Scottish distillery to install a spirit safe & James Fox was paid £428 for his work. No tasting notes at present. ...

Douglas Laing Old & Rare Platinum Selection. Single cask refill hogshead limited to 260 numbered bottles. Thirty year old Port Ellen distilled November 1979 & bottled August 2010 by Douglas Laing for the Old & Rare Platinum selection Port Ellen Port Ellen Distillery was established by Alexander K. Mackay on the southern coast of the Isle of Islay at Port Ellen in 1825. Port Ellen was a malt whisky distillery but closed in 1983 & whilst the distillery buildings remain Port Ellen drum maltings occupy part of the site & participates in Feis Ile, the annual Islay Festival of Malt & Music. Most recent official bottling of Port Ellen single malt whisky was the Port Ellen 11th Release. During the winter of 1823-24 James Fox tested his newly designed spirit safe at Port Ellen Distillery prior to its introduction in all Scottish licenced distilleries by 1825 in order to comply with enactment of the Excise Act of 1823. Thus Port Ellen Distillery was the first Scottish distillery to install a spirit safe & James Fox was paid £428 for his work. Quite distinctly & interestingly citric on the nose – anticipate & detect also a bonfire ash style allied to homebaked scones. Palatewise the sweetness is carried over – then heads into soft summer tar, & dry soot with a drift of sweet smoke. Long on the finish – it is very camphor & (old fashioned) cough drop in style. ...

Single cask refill hogshead limited to 253 numbered bottles. Thirty-one year old Port Ellen distilled December 1979 & bottled January 2011 by Douglas Laing for the Old & Rare Platinum selection. Port Ellen Port Ellen Distillery was established by Alexander K. Mackay on the southern coast of the Isle of Islay at Port Ellen in 1825. Port Ellen was a malt whisky distillery but closed in 1983 & whilst the distillery buildings remain Port Ellen drum maltings occupy part of the site & participates in Feis Ile, the annual Islay Festival of Malt & Music. Most recent official bottling of Port Ellen single malt whisky was the Port Ellen 11th Release. During the winter of 1823-24 James Fox tested his newly designed spirit safe at Port Ellen Distillery prior to its introduction in all Scottish licenced distilleries by 1825 in order to comply with enactment of the Excise Act of 1823. Thus Port Ellen Distillery was the first Scottish distillery to install a spirit safe & James Fox was paid £428 for his work. The nose opens with a fresh & sweetly spiced style & to a softly chewed leather quality before a marzipan & milk chocolate character appears. The palate is round & mellow, richly spiced & builds to a lightly peated warming & smoky character. This all continues in the finish now with soft tar & sweet ashes revealing its Islay provenance with a mellow phenolic quality. ...

Port Ellen 32 Year Old Special Release 2012 Islay single malt Scotch whisky. Limited release of 2, 964 bottles matured in American & European oak casks distilled 1979. ...

Port Ellen 33 Year Old 1982 vintage Islay single malt Scotch whiskey. Single sherry butt bottled September 2015 by Hunter Laing & Co. for the Old & Rare Platinum Selection. Presented in a giant 1.5 litre Magnum bottle. Just 30 numbered bottles produced. ...

Port Ellen 35 Year Old 1978 vintage Islay single malt Scotch whisky. Matured in refill American Oak & refill European Oak casks. Bottled 2014 for the 14th Annual Relese of the series. 2, 964 bottles. ...

Port Ellen 35 Year Old 1978 vintage Islay single malt Scotch whisky. Single cask sherry butt expression of the lost Scottish distillery. Bottled October 2013 by Hunter Laing & Co. for the Old & Rare series. 231 bottles. ...

Port Ellen 36 Year Old 1983 vintage Islay single malt Scotch whisky.  Eidolon is the first in a three-part series of Port Ellen limited-edition bottlings from Hunter Laing & Co. Limited release of 638 bottles. ...

Port Ellen 40 Year Old 1982 vintage Islay single malt Scotch whisky. The second release of Eidolon a trilogy of bottlings from the Islay distillery bottled by Hunter Laing & Co. in anticipation of the closed Port Ellen distillery being ‘brought back to life’. Limited release of 403 bottles. ...

Single cask (number 1301) vintage Port Ellen for the 2008 Islay Festival & yielded Approx. 220 bottles, each is individually numbered. The first ever single cask distillery bottling from Port Ellen. Already a legend, the bottle was available at Caol-Ila Distillery & promptly sold out within hours on the day of release; some keen collectors even pitched up the night before.  Which is almost as extraordinary as the price it changes hands for now. ...