This bottling of a 12-year-old Port Ellen single malt, an original distillery bottling, was produced especially for the visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to the Port Ellen Maltings on 9 August 1980. Forty bottles (or, according to other sources, up to 50) were bottled, using glass bottles that had actually been manufactured for John Hopkins & Co and Oban single malt. The bottle comes with its original glass stopper.
Serge Valentin from WhiskyFun.com awarded this whisky a score of 99/100, the highest score ever achieved.
The label and the box show significant signs of wear and tear.
The distillery was founded in 1825 and taken over by John Ramsay in 1836. Whisky history was reportedly made here with the first use of patent & coffey stills and a spirit safe. It was closed from 1929 to 1966, and only a few years after its renovation it was closed again in 1983. The buildings are now listed and preparations are being made to bring it back into use.
Islay is the most famous of the Scotch whisky islands. It is often referred to as the queen among them. The majority of Islay's single malts have a wonderfully peaty, smoky, strong flavour - flavours for which Islay whisky is so loved.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
This bottling of a 12-year-old Port Ellen single malt, an original distillery bottling, was produced especially for the visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to the Port Ellen Maltings on 9 August 1980. Forty bottles (or, according to other sources, up to 50) were bottled, using glass bottles that had actually been manufactured for John Hopkins & Co and Oban single malt. The bottle comes with its original glass stopper.
Serge Valentin from WhiskyFun.com awarded this whisky a score of 99/100, the highest score ever achieved.
The label and the box show significant signs of wear and tear.
The distillery was founded in 1825 and taken over by John Ramsay in 1836. Whisky history was reportedly made here with the first use of patent & coffey stills and a spirit safe. It was closed from 1929 to 1966, and only a few years after its renovation it was closed again in 1983. The buildings are now listed and preparations are being made to bring it back into use.
Islay is the most famous of the Scotch whisky islands. It is often referred to as the queen among them. The majority of Islay's single malts have a wonderfully peaty, smoky, strong flavour - flavours for which Islay whisky is so loved.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
