Port Ellen 1974 14 Year Old Sestante

Port Ellen 1978 Port Ellen 23 Year Old, Douglas Laing OMC

from a purchased sample Nose: Easy and fairly pleasant enough. Some coastal creamy quality, with a touch of ashy peat. It's so quiet! There's a heap of lemon and some other apply, acidic fruit. Linseed oil, violets, wax, and then there's something just slightly putrid. Not awful, but it flits in and out. Not really getting the sherry in this. A...

Score 87/100

Port Ellen 1982 24 Year Old

Color: Greenish gold. Light. Nose: Briny with ocean notes. Some not unpleasant old wax. Hints of grapefruit. Slight medical bandage tape undercurrent. Body: Oily and substantial. More than the color would suggest. Palate: Pops with pepper and delicious smoke. A crackling beach campfire. Salted melon. Finish: Salty and long with a late hit of...

Score 90/100

Port Ellen 27 Year Old 1983 Douglas of Drumlanrig

Eighteen months ago I took part in a Douglas of Drumlanrig tasting in Gent, but this Port Ellen lacked in the line-up. I do not need to tell you that 1983 is the year in which the distillery closed, right? So this is one of the last casks that was filled. Nice mineral and salty nose with underneath some Granny Smith apples and something yeasty....

Score 85/100

Port Ellen 1982 The Premier Barrel

Nose is smoky, grainy and with an alcohol burn. Body is not real heavy and rather light. While a nice dram, it just does not compare to other Port Ellens I have had. Still has that typical PE undertone but the complexity seems lost. No real depth to this. Strange. Kind of like the 2009 Lagavulin Cask Strenghth..good but one dimensional.

Score 80/100