Signatory Port Ellen 1978 Port Wood Tasting notes and reviews
Signatory Port Ellen 1978 Port Wood
- Brand
- Signatory
- Expression
- Port Ellen 1978 Port Wood
- Type
- Scotch Whisky ~ Single Malt
- Abv
- 58.00%
- Vintage
- 1978
- Produced at
- Signatory Vintage Scotch Whisky Co. Ltd. ~ Port Ellen Distillery
- Region
- Islay
- Website
- www.edradour.co.uk
- Availability
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Martine Nouet
87- Nose
- A kitchen garden. Floral, herbal. Jasmine. Chervil. A garden after a summer shower. Juicy grapefruit pulp. Shellfish, smoked haddock. Tar.
- Palate
- Light and appetising. Sweet cherries. A much fruitier version than usual. Smoke is less distinct than on the nose. Distant seaweed notes.
- Finish
- Tangy. Sherbety. A fruity note.
- Comment
- Typical fragrant, alert Port Ellen, but the port finish lends more fruit and an amazing orangey-pinkish colour.
Dave Broom
77- Nose
- Another of those pink whiskies, yet it smells of iodine, tar and fish oil. Water brings out peat-smoked apricots. In time there's raspberry leaf and Spangles scattered over a stony beach. Weirdly interesting.
- Palate
- The smoke hits immediately, then some light but concentrated fruitiness. Still very tense and dry.
- Finish
- Wood and peat smoke. Singed wool.
- Comment
- Austere, pretty challenging. Finished, I suspect, to inject some fruity life into its dry bones.
Whisky Magazine Issue 27
Andrew Usher - Amateur Blender - Bunnahabhain - Speyside Tasting.
Published November 2002.
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