1969 Port Ellen Gordon & MacPhail 3cl

This is un – opened the fill appears to be 3cl

Port Ellen 1969 (40%, G&M Connoisseur’s Choice old brown label, ca 1985)

Colour: Dark straw.

Nose: Extremely delicate at first nosing, with some superb notes of marzipan and whiffs of camphor and apple skins. Very subtle mix of peat smoke and grapefruit juice. Really excellent, with a beautiful presence. Some hay. Gets peatier and peatier after a few minutes.

Mouth: Very sweet and very peaty attack, with a great body and a perfect mouth feel. Some liquorice, bitter oranges –complex, compact and satisfying.

Rather long finish with a little eucalyptus and some marzipan again. A splendid dram, no doubt.