Port Ellen Maltings 25th Anniversary-1973-21 year oldBottled 1998 to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of Port Ellen Maltings.Bottle number 173. Rear label printed with the names of the staff in 1998. "No need to say this is a legendary bottling!...Nose: wild, very wild, starting on an unusual way, very much on smoked ham and bacon but evolving very quickly towards more typical notes of tar and new tyres. Notes of hot butter, nougat, peated malt... Gets then very flinty, mineral, chalky, lemony... And then quite animal, almost like with some old sherry monsters (but no traces of sherry here). Also raw wool, hare belly, porridge...Great things! The lemony notes get rounder and probably more approachable, then there are Turkish delights, faint hints of bubblegum (very funny here), strawberry sweets (it's probably the first time I get notes of strawberries in Port Ellen), hints of antiseptic, smoked tea... And lots of micro-things that we won't bother to list here. Superb." (5 Stars-Whiskyfun)波特艾倫麥芽作坊—1973—21年為慶祝波特艾倫麥芽作坊25週年於1988年裝瓶。瓶號173，1998年時背標印有員工的姓名。「......不用說這是傳奇佳釀！......香氣：狂野的，非常狂野，從非比尋常的芳香開始，煙熏火腿與煙肉味很快就變化為較典型的焦油與新輪胎味。有熱牛油、牛軋糖、泥煤麥芽的氣息......當下很冷峻，有礦物、白堊質與檸檬香。......然後有點獸性，幾乎和一些老雪莉桶怪物一樣（但這裡沒有雪莉的痕迹）。還有原毛、野兔肚、麥片粥......好東西！檸檬味變得更加圓潤，可能更平易近人，然後有土耳其糖果、淡淡的口香糖（這非常有趣）、草莓糖（這可能是我第一次在波特艾倫嚐到草莓味）、淡淡防腐劑、煙熏茶......還有很多細微的味道我們就不在這裡一一細列。棒極了。」（ Whiskyfun：5星）70cl Single Malt., 58.4% volume.1 bottle