7,000+ Whiskey Database
Nose
Maritime, with brine, seashells and iodine. Hidden behind the maritime notes, we can find a slight touch of citrus and apples
Taste
Slightly oily, and the arrival is smoky, like an extinguished bonfire on the beach. Smoked citrus and oranges, a pinch of pepper that adds some heat, and smoked salmon complements the smoky notes
Finish
Long with smoke, pepper, wood and aniseed
Liquor
Port Ellen 1982 Old Malt Cask (Advance Sample)
Type
ABV
%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Mahogany and leather bound books, furniture polish, fruity notes, roasted nuts
Taste
Well balanced peat and smoke, lots of flavor. Syrupy
Finish
Long and tasty
Nose
Salty and citric, clean and dry with light peat
Taste
Sweetly barley and soft – warms ashy, oaked, creosoted
Finish
Warming, phenolic, peppery, smoked, tarry – late ash
Liquor
Port Ellen 1982 Old Malt Cask for PLOWED
Type
ABV
61.1%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Malted cherry and hint of wintergreen
Taste
Light fireplace ash. Hint of red hots
Finish
Sweet caramel candy. Water shows more hard fruit candy
Liquor
Port Ellen 1982 Scott’s Selection
Type
ABV
57.2%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Green tea, fresh bitter almonds, apple peelings, ashes, whiffs of hot tarmac
Taste
Peat and pears. Goes on with marzipan, cough syrup, a little icing sugar and liquorice sticks
Finish
A lot of sugar powder infused with cinnamon, apples and cedar wood.
Liquor
Port Ellen 1982 Signatory (Cask 1145)
Type
ABV
43%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Oak and sherry, with some burnt sugar in the mix
Taste
Nice clean sherry, hints of chocolate
Finish
Faint bitter cocoa, medium long.
Nose
The nose shows soft, earthy peat and struck match igniting pipe tobacco
Taste
The palate is all weathered leather tempered by sweet, mellowing dark wood
Finish
This long and powerful malt turns the phenols back up to 11 for a spicy, peaty finish
Nose
Still hot tar scattered fresh, sweet malt, sweet apples, dry herbs such as lavender, fennel, etc., lemon peel, a little vanilla and toffee
Taste
Great sweet and salty mixture, chalk, iodine, herbal honey, rosemary, lavender, fennel, tar, glowing ash, sea salt, lime zest, grapefruit peel, beautiful tannins, sweet malt
Finish
Herbal honey, citric acid, the malt and tobacco, long, warm finish that leaves a lot, great
Nose
Smoke and sea salt with iodine is quite saturated and dense. Later a lot of citrus fruits, lemon juice sprinkled with black pepper. Then menthol candies and green apples
Taste
Red pepper in olive oil. Lemon, over-dried wood,sweet, spicy and smoky and from somewhere vanilla appears in oil with menthol
Finish
Dry, peppery, pleasantly warming, then flows into vanilla smoky notes, mint and menthol
Liquor
Port Ellen 1983 McGibbon’s Provenance
Type
ABV
46%
Region
Distiller
Nose
A marriage of the sea and fruitiness on the nose, enjoy its saline and marine quality alongside the nuances of its Sherry Cask heritage
Taste
Initially dry fore-taste runs to pepperiness, softened by the characteristics of the cask
Finish
Long, warming, smoky plus the archetypal,
Liquor
Port Ellen 1983 Old Bothwell (220)
Type
ABV
54.9%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Floral, fresh eucalyptus, bosc pears, graphite/ lead and warm maple syrup
Taste
Green grapes and green apple skins, pears. Fruits over a campfire
Finish
Dark black tea, coffee grind and chewing tobacco
Liquor
Port Ellen 1983 Old Bothwell (Cask 20)
Type
ABV
55.5%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Lemon and grapefruit aromas, soft camphor, marzipan, walnuts, wet wool.
Taste
Peat, brine, citrus, some oak but again also sweeter notes of marzipan and hazelnuts towards the end. And a nice pepper / ginger combo.
Finish
Very long with citrus, smoke and salty liquorice.