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Port Ellen 1977 Turatello 15 Year Old

Lot: 5120152C

Port Ellen 1977 Turatello 15 Year Old

Winning Bid: £700
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 16 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Port Ellen
Age: 
15 Year Old
Vintage: 
1977
Region: 
Islay
Bottler: 
Turatello
Bottled Strength: 
40%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Port Ellen 1977 Turatello 15 Year Old

This is a Nadi Fiori bottling. Fiori was the owner of the Taverna degli Artisti bar in Italy, and a contemporary of his fellow connoisseur countrymen, Silvano Samaroli and Ernesto Mainardi. Fiori established an import company in the 1980s, along with beer distributors the Turatello brothers, and the firm was named Intertrade. Their bottles are legendary and some of the most sought after on the market. The Intertrade name disappears around 1989, however Fiori continued to import bottles under the Turatello Imports name, like this one. He would then later go on to found his own company, called High Spirits.

This whisky was distilled on April 14th 1977 and bottled in September 1992. It is one of many vintage Port Ellen bottled by Nadi Fiori with this label style.

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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