Port Ellen Pe1 Elements of Islay 58.7% NV

Distillerie	Port Ellen
Embouteilleur	Speciality Drinks Ltd
Serie	Elements of Islay
Mise en bouteille pour
Date de distillation	Not Specified
Date de mise en bouteille	2009
Pays	Écosse
Région	Islay
Age
Cask Type	1st Fill Sherry Butt
Numéro de fût
Alcohol percentage	58.7
Volume
État	Parfait
Étiquette	Parfait
Stock	0

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Whisky Notes (92)

Nose: wow. And a few minutes later: WOW. Dark chocolate with a fruity centre. Hints of cecina (cured and smoked cow meat, typical of León in Spain). Well balanced between sweet, smoked and savory. Wonderful how big fruit (apples, raspberry) and dry peat go hand in hand. Hints of rubber and tobacco. Cocoa. A few medicinal notes and seaweed. Soot. Very complex. With water: juicier (fresh plums, more berries). Mouth: oily attack, now the peat and smoke take the lead – a bit too much maybe. Hints of sweet almonds and lemon, but they’re too easy for the big wave of peat. Slightly sharp peat with a salty edge of liquorice. Some pepper. With water: a tad minty with hints of tobacco. Finish: long, dry and smokey.

A perfect example of a successful marriage between peat and sherry. Around € 130 at the time, but sold out. A new Port Ellen PE2 is expected really soon, so keep an eye on the TWE website if you’re tempted.

BOW (93)

Tasting Notes by Speciality Drinks Ltd
Nose
Barley sugar, furniture polish, powdered milk chocolate. The faintest hint of smoked kippers, blending in with the obvious sherried influence. A highly-polished church pew. A favourite woolen jumper. With time a feast of subtle, ever-changing aromas arise from the glass - tinned apricot syrup, pot pourri, libraries, bandages, aged orange liqueur, damson jam...you get idea.
Taste
Amazing dried fruit, raisins, Christmas cake and toffee bonbons, then massive peat. Dense, almost chewy texture, with massive warm, sweet, hot, tannic presence on the tongue. Those brave enough to hold it on the tastebuds will find an earth-shattering intensity of flavour as the array of flavours from the nose unleash themselves onto the palate.
Finish
Epic. Absolutely immense. Almost unending.