Port
Ellen 1983 27yo 49,4%, xx.03.1983/xx.05.2010, refill sherry cask#672, 278 bottles, Duncan Taylor ‘Rarest of the Rare’
Pale gold in colour
Strange one, this one… its
Port Ellen for sure when you stick your nose in it, but almost no smoke/peat
comes off this thing. After a short while it turns gristy/mashy and farmyardy.
I find some salty notes on the nose as well, but this feels a bit off to me
somehow – like the mashy nose doesn’t quite mix well with rest.
Taste:
Tastewise, you
sure do get the mashy notes, I get a lot of notes from like drinking from a
washback only mellowed by the oak and then some peat, and let’s be clear - this
is not a peat monster although it does have some.
Finish is, well, a finish on the same notes as in the taste and not that long.
In my book it’s a good PE but with no major buzz'n'fuzz to be had about.
87/100!
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