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Port Ellen 1981 Cooper's Choice 18 Year Old / Symposion Sweden

Lot: 255498

Port Ellen 1981 Cooper's Choice 18 Year Old / Symposion Sweden

Winning Bid: £380

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Port Ellen
Age: 
18 year old
Vintage: 
1981
Region: 
Islay
Bottler: 
The Vintage Malt Whisky Co.
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
43%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Closed
product Details

Port Ellen 1981 Cooper's Choice 18 Year Old / Symposion Sweden

The Vintage Malt Whisky Company is a family-owned firm in Glasgow, founded in 1992 by Brian Crook. In addition to their Cooper's Choice series, they also bottle number of their own single malt brands, such as Finlaggan (an Islay) and Tantallan (a Highland), using whisky sourced from unspecified distilleries.

This Port Ellen was distilled in 1981 and laid to rest in cask #1390 before being bottled after 18 years by The Vintage Malt Whisky Company in 1999 as part of The Cooper's Choice series. Specially selected for spirit merchants Symposion of Malmö, Sweden. One of 300 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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