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[Davin de Kergommeaux]

Luc,

You've got a great nose and a fine palate as I've witnessed many times, but
you and I disagree on a certain sulphur note.  To me, a Port Ellen, probably
from a sherry cask, that shows notes of gunpowder, cordite, fireworks, etc.
gets extra points not fewer.  Are these the sherry notes you detected or are
they more in the skunk cabbage range?

Rubber, tyres, pinewood, and cinammon all appeal to me as well.

Davin


On 4/10/07, Luc Timmermans (LWS) <luc.timmermans at lindores.be> wrote:
>
> If this Port Ellen is this one.........here my notes
>
> *Port Ellen 24yo 1982/2006 (60,4%, Bladnoch forum, Cask 2461, 644 Bts.)*
> Nose : Starts very buttery (the brown melting butter), and that typical
> 80's Port Ellen rubbery notes, the sulphury notes underneath, pinetree,
> pirelli tyres and varnish, not really my cup of tea I'm afraid (18)
> Taste : Full and strong taste, you get vegetal rubbery notes mixed with
> fat mouldering buttery notes, quite some cinnamon and sulphury pinewood
> euhmmmm (18)
> Finish : Long evasive...but ....you know.....buttery sulphury.....(18)
> Balance/complexity : Yeah...I know...I'm not a big amateur of this PE
> profile...., I prefer the pure 70's style (18)
> Total points : 72
>
> I'm not a big fan of rubbery sulphury Port Ellen's I'm afraid......
>
> Åke Johansson wrote:
>
> Hi Ralph,
>
> I am happy to bring some light in here. Bladnoch forum is the lively
> discussions forum at the Bladnoch Distillery web site. But it offers more
> than a place to post your opinions on whisky and almost any subject:
> sometimes as a member of the forum you get the opportunity to buy whisky
> very moderately priced from various distilleries, handbottled by the crew at
> Bladnoch (sometimes assisted by forum members). So far we have had bottlings
> of whisky from Tomatin, Macallan, Cragganmore, Tamdhu, Bladnoch (one rum
> finished, one cognac finished), Caol Ila, Port Ellen (and we did not pay
> £86) and two bottlings of Invergordon Grain. Most likely to be the next
> issue is a bottling of Bladnoch produced after the revival. Keep in touch athttp://www.bladnoch.co.uk/
>
> Cheers
> Åke
>
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> Ralph Katzenell
> Skickat: den 10 april 2007 16:31
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> Greetings all.
> Last week in Skipton I saw a bottle of Por Tellen (OK, I know that its not
> nice to make comments about people's accents, specially when you've got one
> like mine!) - anyway, on with the story:
> It was cask strength, at only 86 Pounds (including VAT) and had a very
> minimalist label on it. Bottled by "Bladnoch Forum".
> Can anyone enlighten me who this "Bladnoch Forum" is, and are there comments
> on the bottling. Worth chasing after?
> Ralph
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