Port Ellen Distillery (Closed 1983)
ABV: 58%
Age: No age statement Years Old
Style: Single Malt
Country: Scotland
Region: Islay
Overall
Score
8.3
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.
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