port ellen signatory

Hi. I am relatively new to single malts and generally favor the Islays. I just picked up a Signatory Port Ellen 1983 that is in a 375 ml bottle. It seemed surprisingly inexpensive for a Port Ellen, about $25. I would really appreciate any info on this Port Ellen? I was also surprised to find out that the bottles have a screw top. Is this at all common on smaller 375 ml bottles (are the 375's themselves common?), and does it indicate a lesser product at all? Thanks for any info.

FF

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Falcon
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I've bought only one 1/2 bottle of Signatory malt and that was a Longrow in

1996. It definitely had a screw cap and it definitely didn't seem inferior in anyway - except that it didn't last as long as a full bottle!
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The Man With No Idea

Signed here. Also came across a handful of screw capped Whisky's and could not so that there way any of lesser quality.

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Peter

For our last 2 nights in Yorkshire, I did not want to try to bring an opened bottle on an airline, I purchased a 1/2 bottle of Laphroig. It too came in a screw-top bottle. Same great whisky, though.

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chuck

This might come too late to be of interest, but I may have had that bottle.

Or perhaps I had something similar; mine was a 375ml screw-capped Signatory '83 Port Ellen, distilled 20.1.83 and bottled 1.97. It was a 13yo.

Yours may be different, but if it's the same it has sat on the shelf for a while. There are lots of treasures out there collecting dust, waiting for the right person to discover them...

Screw caps are common on 375ml bottles, even for bottlers like Signatory that use cork for their full size bottles. I think screw-caps for all sizes were recently more common in previous years. In fact I've never seen a whisky in a 375ml bottle that wasn't a screw cap - although there probably are some. It doesn't indicate a lesser product at all.

The 375ml size isn't too uncommon, but it isn't favored by retailers much. I've always wished it were. But retailers complain of more investment in inventory, more shelf space required, etc... and the unspoken complaint is smaller revenues, no doubt.

If your PE was the same as mine, I thought it was a good dram. Not stunning, but with good young flavors and a strong Islay finish. You could taste the grainy-ness of the malt and it had very little wood influence. While there will be bottlings of Port Ellen for some time to come, I bought it thinking, "There won't be any more

*young* Port Ellen". I wasn't disappointed; hope you weren't either.

Bart

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Bart

Cadenhead's did some - intended for the american market, being 375ml. But for the the european 350 ml market, I have only discoverded one, and that was not even a scotch, but an english apple brandy...

Ivar S. Norway

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Ivar Svensson

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