One for the whisky drinkers

[TringSaint]

I mentioned on here some time ago that my dad was a bit of a wine and whisky collector and that he had some rare malts in his collection.

Well, he finally opened one and following my helping him to clear his garage out yesterday (they are moving house so need to de-coke the house of 47 year’s worth of crap) and he very kindly gave me the remainder (majority) of the bottle.

See below - all I can say is that it tastes amazing - nothing like any Caol Ila I have had before.
Can’t wait until he opens his 1978 Port Ellen!!!

 

[doric_prince]

Can’t wait until he opens his 1978 Port Ellen

You don’t say how old it is, but may be worth quite a bit.

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/4265/port-ellen-1978-20-year-old-rare-malts

I would suggest checking on a website such as master of malt or other to see before popping cork.

 

[HonestJohn]

I’d auction off that port Ellen, could fetch near £10k in a London house

 

[TringSaint]

You don’t say how old it is, but may be worth quite a bit.

https://www.thewhiskyexchange.com/p/4265/port-ellen-1978-20-year-old-rare-malts

I would suggest checking on a website such as master of malt or other to see before popping cork.

Sorry, it was distilled in July 1977 and bottled in November 1993. Cask ref 4666, bottle number 147.

Think it’s ‘worth’ about £1100-£1200 at auction, but only if you have all of the provenance, which we don’t.

So if we tried to sell any of them (he has 8 or 9 of them I think) then we would get a fraction of that, and I value enjoying drinking them with my dad more than the cash.

 

[HonestJohn]

Nothing wrong with enjoying them! I did have a 24yr old port Ellen, paid £500, now they’re around £2500 in shops where I’ve seen them.

 

[doric_prince]

Sorry, it was distilled in July 1977 and bottled in November 1993. Cask ref 4666, bottle number 147.

Think it’s ‘worth’ about £1100-£1200 at auction, but only if you have all of the provenance, which we don’t.

So if we tried to sell any of them (he has 8 or 9 of them I think) then we would get a fraction of that, and I value enjoying drinking them with my dad more than the cash.

I would just drink it then. Unless 5 figures, to me, nostalgia value holds more and good whisky is meant to be drunk imo. Enjoy. Slàinte mhath

 

[Freeforester]

Cadenheads were a well known Edinburgh-based whisky & spirits bottler/distributor.

The overwhelming majority of Islay whiskies tend to have a very distinctive phenolic overtone. To some this is an attraction, or appeals to their sense of taste. À chacun son goût.

As to the ‘natural strength’ suggested state of the cask spirit per the label…. all I can say is that in over forty years of buying single cask, cask strength single malt whisky direct from the producer, I’ve yet to be offered an octave of whisky of less than 59 plus percent abv; this is however, from elsewhere in the land.

Watering down the spirit from the cask to lower strength levels does of course makes very good commercial sense. It may well be a marketing ploy to describe it thus.

 

[Donkey Basher]

Sorry, it was distilled in July 1977 and bottled in November 1993. Cask ref 4666, bottle number 147.

Think it’s ‘worth’ about £1100-£1200 at auction, but only if you have all of the provenance, which we don’t.

So if we tried to sell any of them (he has 8 or 9 of them I think) then we would get a fraction of that, and I value enjoying drinking them with my dad more than the cash.

That ref is the one on the bottle of Caol Ila not the Port Ellen… ?

 

[wytonpjs]

Having been introduced to Cadenheads et al from a good whisky shop in Cupar, I’ve all but drunk up my purchases from them bar this one - the closest I could find to my birth year in 1982 to take down South with me

Reserved for special occasions, I’m now virtually exclusively drinking cask strength Caol Ila from the SMWS - good stuff it it

 

[TringSaint]

That ref is the one on the bottle of Caol Ila not the Port Ellen… ?

Yes, that is the Caol Ila