The signature event of the Ligonier-based private foundation raises funds for other local charities to help enhance the lives of Western Pennsylvania residents in a variety of ways.Īs the festivities got underway, event chair and foundation President Jo Rossi told guests that among recipients of funds have been Ligonier Valley Historical Society, Meals on Wheels, a weekend backpack meal program for local school children and a senior center that requested a pool table for its residents. Hosted by the Laurel Ridge Foundation, the event went off without a hitch on May 6 at Latrobe Country Club in Unity. Digestive biscuits, crisp green grapes and lingering notes of earth, damp leaf and charred oak.Water enhances all this, and there’s a fine smoky-waxy after-taste.The 149th running of the Kentucky Derby was plagued with issues, but not so the 9th annual Derby Day for Charity. A drop of water lowers the spicy heat, leaving orchard fruit, slightly charred, and softly sweeter,with a little sweet mint.įinish: Smooth, warming and spicy,with aromatic smoke. As with the nose, the earthy notes build, mixing in dark chocolate, scented wood smoke and burnt orange, before a sweeter and lighter note of freshly sliced apple, spiced and sweetened, livens things up. Lemony citrus, then that savoury earthiness, with fragrant damp grass, ripe fruit (spiced peaches) and spicy smoked meats. Palate: Fabulously smooth oily-textured, sweet and fruity. A drop of water makes the aromas really smooth and waxy,raising scented candles and a trace of cinnamon, with noticeable smoke, warm spices, honey, tropical and stone fruits. Peat-reek, damp bark, charred wax, flowers and tropical fruits pursued by familiar chamois leather and sherbet lemon.The fragrance evolves as a new-mown spring meadow, all wild flowers and grass, fading to a darker, savoury earthiness with dry peat and brush wood while the leather picks up spice, all of it wreathed in gentle scented wood smoke. Only 2988 individually numbered bottles world-wideįrom refill American Oak hogsheads and butts filled in 1979. The equal oldest Port Ellen ever released and unsurprisingly the most expensive Special Release yet, hitting all the notes you could want in style.Who needs power when you have all of this well-mannered yet complex elegance, with its fine balance of sweet fruit, honeyed citrus, smoke, warmth and oak?

Here we go for the 17th annual release of this iconic dram!

Port Ellen 37 Year Old -1979 -17th Release (2017) Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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