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Port Ellen 1983 Cadenhead's 12 Year Old Miniature

Lot: 224086

Port Ellen 1983 Cadenhead's 12 Year Old Miniature

Winning Bid: £40

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Port Ellen
Age: 
12 Year Old
Vintage: 
1983
Region: 
Islay
Bottler: 
Wm. Cadenhead
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
57.8%
Bottle Size: 
5cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Port Ellen 1983 Cadenhead's 12 Year Old Miniature 

The Authentic Collection was launched by Wm. Cadenhead in 1991, and included whiskies from several rare closed Scottish and Irish distilleries, bottled for the company's 150th anniversary. It would later go on to become a mainstay of their portfolio, as the cask strength alternative to the Original Collection, which replaced their famous "dumpy" bottlings in the early 1990s. The Authentic Collection is now the flagship Cadenhead brand, and one of the most recognisable independent labels on the market.

This is a 1983 vintage Port Ellen, bottled in June 1995.

Port Ellen is the lost jewel in the Islay crown, closed down by DCL (now Diageo) in 1983 due to an oversupply of peated whisky for blending and a perceived lack of interest in it as a single malt. It has developed a legendary status in the years since. A very rare 12 year old bottled for attendees of the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 1980 is believed to have been the only distillery bottling produced in its years of operation. Diageo have bottled more since, but it is the independent companies that have given the whisky world the best chance to sample this sought after single malt. 

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