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Port Ellen 1975 The Prestonfield 24 Year Old

Lot: 6145091

Port Ellen 1975 The Prestonfield 24 Year Old

Winning Bid: £850

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Port Ellen
Age: 
24 Year Old
Vintage: 
1975
Region: 
Islay
Bottler: 
Signatory Vintage
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
46%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Port Ellen 1975 Prestonfield 24 Year Old

Prior to founding Signatory Vintage, Andrew Symington was the Assistant Manager at Edinburgh's famous Prestonfield House Hotel. In his final years at the hotel, he had several sought after single malts bottled for them, proving to be the catalyst for establishing his own company in 1988. He later launched The Prestonfield Whisky Co as a secondary brand in order to capitalise on the renown of the hotel bottlings in the wider market. Like their Dun Eideann label, it also allowed them to grant exclusivity to different distributors. Many of these Prestonfield releases were bottled for La Maison du Whisky in Paris.

A Port Ellen single malt, this was distilled on 8th April 1975 and bottled 24 years later from cask #1775. One of 350 bottles.

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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