Port Ellen 16 1980 Gordon & MacPhail Spirit of Scotland

Thanks to RaunchyJowls for the sample. There are some whiskies that people assume are going to be perfect. We’ve been spoiled, if you will. If you have been drinking back to the 90s, this happened with old Ardbeg. You got used to 70s Ardbeg, then the company ran out eventually. If you were buying in the early […]

Port Ellen 27 1978 Douglas Laing Old & Rare – The Platinum Selection / Port Ellen 24 1982 Scott’s Selection

There’s a general feeling I have about distilleries. It’s okay to love a distillery. However, you should know that you’re enjoying a whisky made in a period of time and given special circumstances. Let’s look at Port Ellen. Port Ellen was closed down first in 1930 (continued as a malting and bonded warehouse), rebuilt in […]

Port Ellen 31 1982 Old Particular Douglas Laing

Thanks to Strasse for the sample. For those of you late to the party, or who have missed the other reviews, each year near my birthday I aim to review something from my birth year. This is Birthday dram #4. Port Ellen evokes different thoughts for different people. To start off it’s one of those […]

Port Ellen 24 1978 [Feather’s Flight Review Set #18]

Each year I am brought out to The Feathers Pub, Toronto for my birthday. Some years multiple times. This year, just once, and that’s okay by me. Too much of a good thing and that. Finishing up with a Port Ellen. Because… duh. Port Ellen is another one of those distilleries that is opening up again. And […]

Port Ellen 20 1978 [Feather’s Flight Review Set #17]

Hey, it’s that whisky people wait for when it go to The Feathers Pub. Because it’s an Islay and you always finish with an Islay. Dammit. So this is pretty standard, as everyone can attest. You know, you go out, have a couple drams, finish up with a Port Ellen. Specifically Port Ellen 20 1978. […]

Port Ellen 1978 22 [Feather’s Flight Review Set #15]

Review number 2 of Feathers Pub, and I was asked to make it a doozy. So it’s time to skip dessert, we’re going in. Yup, reviewing an Islay. A mothballed one at that. My highest reviewed distillery at that. A dram that most of us won’t ever have, because the rest of us have other […]

Port Ellen 1979 21 Douglas Laing Old Malt Cask [Feather’s Flight Review Set #14]

Another year, another 4-10 reviews up in a two month span of whiskies that no one man should ever drink. But here I am. I know what you’re thinking: I must be fat. And drunk all the time. Only one of those are true, and I’m not drunk right now, so fatty’s going to keep […]

Port Ellen 24 [Feather’s Flight Review Set #5]

If you’re just tuning in, it’s that time of year again, when either I or my buddy has a birthday, I take him out or I am taken out to The Feather’s Pub[1] , eat, and be merry. Also I do a bevy of reviews. My father surprised me on this last trip. He asked […]

Port Ellen 1980 Signatory [Feather’s Flight Review Set #1]

And here we are, finally, at the last review of the Feather’s Pub Flight[1] . If you haven’t been following, Here are the links to all of the other reviews: Part 1[2] Part 2[3] Part 3[4] Part 4[5] For the final installment, we have Port Ellen 1980 Signatory, a 16 year Cask Strength independently bottled […]