One of my favourites. This is a very traditional distillery producing powerful, peaty malts.
The colour is like peach-amber. The nose (I love it) is malty, some sherry with iodine. The palate is malty with some sweetness. The finish is big, peaty, smoky, little salty and very long.
This is one of my favourite drinks. Sad enough itīs sometimes not easy to find. Especially this bottling is very rare. I hope, the closing of the maltings doesnīt influence future bottlings.
To many devotees one of the best whiskies in an official bottling. Not necessarily for the newcomer to whisky. My father, for example finds that this one tastes like an old, wet leather sole. And I thought, Iīd do him something good. Well, itīs not my opinion. The truth is that some people donīt get along whith the heavily peated and sherry character.
The colour is full to dark amber. The nose has sherry, smoke, peat and salt. You can tell the distillery is on the shore. The palate again is very peaty and smoky, later salty. The finish is spectacular. Extremely powerful, long, peaty. This one warms you up.
The rarest of Islay Malts. The distillery was closed in 83. Today the maltings are still operational and produce the malt for Lagavulin and Caol Ila. Too sad, this one is closed. It made history: The testing of the first spirit safes took place at Port Ellen and in 1840 the export of whisky to America started from here.
- There is a Signatory bottling of cask No. 6205 available too. -
This is a bottling by the Scotch Single Malt Circle and only available to members. If you are interested in the malts, give me an e-mail.
The colour is pale gold. The nose reveals seaweed, some oil and salt. The palate is dry, peppery and peaty. The finish is excellent. Dry, very warm and long. The whisky is not chill-filtered.