Product Description

In celebration of the 2011 Royal Wedding TWE selected a single sherry cask of Port Ellen and bottled it on 29th April - the wedding day itself. The spirit was distilled in 1982, the same year that Prince William and The Duchess of Cambridge (aka Kate Middleton) were both born, and the year before the distillery closed. It's a big, dark cask-strength dram with rich, dry sherrywood flavours.

Style

4
Body
4
Richness
5
Smoke
2
Sweetness

Character

Smoke
Dark Chocolate
Tobacco
Coffee
Kippers
Stewed Fruit

Product Facts

Bottler
The Whisky Exchange
Vintage
1982
Bottling Date
April 2011
No of Bottles
213
Country
Scotland
Region
Islay
Cask Type
Sherry
Cask Number
2290
Chill Filtered
No
Colouring
No

Port Ellen 1982 Royal Wedding Reserve

Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
The Whisky Exchange

70cl / 53%

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Tasting Notes

Billy A
- Nose
  At first a savoury damp gravel road with a few weeds, but that quickly burned off. It was replaced by balsamic vinegar, Love Hearts and Space Invaders, and burnt apple pie with cinnamon and raisins. Under that there's a bit of medicinal smoke, with a light menthol hiding behind it.
- Palate
  Coal smoke and leather up front, then big meaty tannins and green wood fighting with some sweet peat on the centre of the tongue. Water shows a little more, with sweet fruit in the middle (sweet grapes and an appley hint?) and a bit of savoury vegetal peat creeping in.
- Finish
  Initially fiery, quickly calming to dry smoke and coffee grounds with a hint of sweetness and the sweetshop from the nose as the smoke clears.
- Comment
  It's scarily dark in the bottle, but it's a comforting a rich reddy brown when it gets in a glass. I'm still trying to work out if Tim's green tinges are really the colour of the edges or just an artifact of the lighting in our tasting dungeon...
Tim F
- Nose
  A teasing combination of sweet and savoury, with chocolate, some raisins and cocoa powder notes alongside some balsamico, menthol, coffee, eucalyptus, linen and briney, kippery notes. The above on a four-poster bed of old polished teak or mahogany.
- Palate
  Quite full, without being too overbearing. A tannic, oaky thrust initially, then a powerful surge of sweet peat and dry sherry, with most of the characters from the nose well-represented. Develops much more on the savoury side, with aged balsamic vinegar and saltfish and those rich dark coffee notes. Water lifts sweeter notes, and enhances the cocoa powder with some exotic fruit and a hint of old libraries.
- Finish
  Long, sweet, tingly with residual spice, orange liqueur notes. Quite drying as one expects from whisky of this age.
- Well , the colour is very appealing
  A rich nutty brown with red gold tints in the bottle and some greenish tinges at the edge in the glass.