Port Ellen 1979 Vintage – Douglas Laing
Distilled in December 1979 and bottled in January 2007, this vintage Port Ellen offers rich peat smoke and maritime influences.
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Expert Cask Maturation
This whisky matured over many years in selected casks, offering balanced complexity.
| ABV | 49,60% |
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| Volume | 700 ml |
| Distilled | december 1979 |
| Bottled | January 2020 |
| Amount of bottles | 299 |
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| Label | Extremely rare vintage |
Distilled in December 1979 and bottled in January 2020. In 1983 Port Ellen closed. This legendary Islay Whisky was aged in a refill bourbon cask and is described by Douglas Laing as a whisky bursting bursting with peated barley and brown sugar. The palate reveals fudge, spices and chewed leather with a finish of iodine and smoke. To certify quality and authenticity, the Chairman of, Douglas Laing, Fred Laing and the Director of Whisky, Cara Laing, have hand signed each label of this single cask whisky.
Dried Fruit
Rich
Smokey
Tasting note
When this whisky enters youre nose you will smell a gently burnt scone initially, followed by the softest peated barley and brown sugar. The plate shows an eclectic mix of fudge, spices, chewed leather, more subtle peat and a saline quality with late coal dust and ash. The finish amplifies all those earlier subtleties with the emphasis on big hitting spices, smoke, iodine and phenolic charm.
