Port Ellen 1974 CpB Selection
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Port Ellen |
| Bottler | Captain Burn's (CpB) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1974 |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 40.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
the most amazing combination of gentle peat smoke and cold coffee at first nosing, followed with a whirlwind of phenolic and resinous aromas. A few aromas as they come: fresh walnuts, old turpentine, flints, coal oven, engine oil, tar, hessian, almond oil, clams (or any other seashells, really), cigar smoke, smoked ham, smoked salmon… It’s simply both endless and subtle, rather different from more modern ‘wham-bam’ PEs (that we love as well of course). Complex peat, does that exists?
restaurant Palate
not exactly big of course but wonderfully lemony, smoky and resinous, ashy, tarry, salty, grassy… More citrusy notes after a few seconds, even tangerines and oranges, quite some marzipan… Too bad it falls just a bit towards the middle of the middle, with the salt coming to the front. But what a fantastic profile, imagine this at 50% vol.!
timer Finish
medium long, grassier, with the fresh walnuts that we already had on the nose leading the pack, then salt and lemon