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The Port Ellen 12 Year Old Queens Visit: World Record Price Set by Whisky Auctioneer

The Port Ellen 12 Year Old Queen’s Visit is thought to be the only official Port Ellen bottling to be made in all of Port Ellen’s years in operation. This makes this bottle infinitely collectible. Only 40 bottles of this whisky were ever produced for the Queen and her senior staff members on their visit […]
Beth Squires is Editor-in-Chief of The Whiskey Wash and a whisky writer.

The Port Ellen 12 Year Old Queen’s Visit is thought to be the only official Port Ellen bottling to be made in all of Port Ellen’s years in operation. This makes this bottle infinitely collectible.

Only 40 bottles of this whisky were ever produced for the Queen and her senior staff members on their visit to the Port Ellen Maltings in 1980. 

As such, this bottle is quite possibly the rarest bottle of Port Ellen in existence. 

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You can read more about the bottle, and the history of Port Ellen Maltings here. 

Beth Squires

Beth Squires joined Mark Littler Ltd in 2020 and has developed extensive knowledge of the whisky industry through research, reporting and the creation of specialist educational content. As Editor-in-Chief of The Whiskey Wash, Beth oversees coverage spanning whisky history, production, innovation, new releases and the secondary bottle market. She is particularly passionate about making complex areas of the industry accessible to whisky drinkers, collectors and buyers. Beth holds a degree in English Literature and was selected as a mentee for the OurWhisky Foundation’s Atonia Programme in 2025.