Port Ellen (silent) Gordon & MacPhail Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (35cl) 20 Year Old · 1979 Vintage

35cl · 60.7% ABV

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Cask Strength

A half sized bottle of Port Ellen, bottled at cask strength from 1979 and released as a 20 year old single malt. Drawn from casks 7244 - 7247. Given the continuing rising prices for bottles from this distillery, this is a reasonably priced opportunity to try and buy a whisky from this legendary distillery.

Product Details

Distillery/Brand Port Ellen (silent)
Bottler Gordon & MacPhail
Region Islay
Age 20 year old
Alcohol ABV 60.7% ABV
Vintage 1979
Year Bottled 2000
Cask Wood Type Oak
Cask Number 7244+7247
Country of Origin Scotland
Packaging Original Box

Tasting Notes

Colour

Deep mahogany amber with coppery-bronze undertones and a velvety, burnished glow.

Nose

Intense maritime peat and smoke lead the aroma, laced with iodine, sea breeze, and a touch of salt. Beneath, sherry sweetness emerges: raisins, dried fig, and cocoa, wrapped in dark vanilla-spiced oak. A polished, cask-strength richness layers depth with a refined, lingering finish.

Palate

Powerfully peated and cask strength, it opens with monumental smoke and briny sea air, then reveals rich sherry-influenced fruit—fig, raisin, dark chocolate—woven with leather and spice. The palate is warm and velvety, with a long finish of peat, oak, and a peppery tickle.

Finish

Long, sherried finish that clings with coastal peat and dark fruit. Rich cherry, fig and cocoa melt into sea-salt and ash, carried on a warming wave of cask-strength heat. Spices linger with oak and pepper, tapering to a refined, lingering dry note.

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Port Ellen (silent)
(Port-Ellen) As far as many people are concerned, Port Ellen is one of the great lost distilleries of Scotland. Port Ellen Whisky was founded in 1825 on the south shore of Port Ellen Islay by A. K. Mackay & Co. Closed in 1983 after being mothballed between 1930 and 1967. And with three Islay distilleries on the hands of the owners Port Ellen was the one to close with Caol Ila and Lagavulin surviving the 1980s closures.
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