Port Ellen 1979 36 Year Old XOP
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Lot number: 075-0850
Winning bid: £700
Douglas Laing’s XOP is the “big brother” to Old Particular, meaning the XOP is the top of the range whisky from Douglas Laing's reserved only for the aged and rare, premium whiskies! Becoming the "family jewels” for the Douglas Laing's team, each XOP release is one of a kind, and truly spectacular, and always packaged in a luxurious wooden hinged gift box, wax-dipped bottle and individually numbered certificate honours the antique single malt and single grain whisky inside.
This bottle was distilled at a distillery that was for many THE Islay malt, it has attained near cult status since the distillery was mothballed in 1983. The stills were shipped abroad in the early 1990s and the distillery was demolished shortly after. The warehouse is still there, allowing Diageo and independent bottlers to keep releasing bottles from an ever dwindling stock.
Distilled: May 1979
Bottled: September 2015
Age: 36 years old
Cask Type: Refill Hogshead
Cask Number: 10914
56.6% ABV / 701cl
Bottle Number: One of only 227 bottles released
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