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Port Ellen 1982 Douglas Laing XOP / 70th Anniversary

Lot: 5115486

Port Ellen 1982 Douglas Laing XOP / 70th Anniversary

Winning Bid: £1,400

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Port Ellen
Age: 
N/A
Vintage: 
1982
Region: 
Islay
Bottler: 
Douglas Laing
Cask Type: 
See Lot Description
Bottled Strength: 
54.4%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Port Ellen 1982 Douglas Laing XOP / 70th Anniversary

Douglas Laing & Co was established in 1948 by Fred Douglas Laing, affectionately known as “FDL.” The company started out as a blending business, but over time their focus shifted towards independently bottlings single malts. Fred died in 1982, leaving the business to his two sons, Stewart and Fred Jr, who eventually carved it up in 2013, with Stewart leaving to establish Hunter Laing. Fred Jr and his daughter Cara now run Douglas Laing, which continues to bottle single malt and has also revived its blending business. Additionally, the company has recently moved into distilling as well, announcing plans to construct the new Clutha distillery in Glasgow, and taking over Strathearn in Perthshire in 2019.

The XOP range was launched in 2013 and is reserved for bottlings from casks considered the Laing "family jewels." This is a special Platinum 70th Anniversary commemorative edition. 

Distilled in November 1982 and bottled in October 2018 from refill butt #12282.

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.

One of 273 bottles.

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