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Port Charlotte An Turas Mor Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2010) 70cl
Port Charlotte An Turas Mor Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2010) 70cl
The Port Charlotte Whisky An Turas Mor , Multi Vintage - Bottled December 2010
Nanu: We're eagerly awaiting the PC9 and are surprised by a Multi Vintage made up of PC5, PC6, PC7 and PC8.
And while you're already saving up for the PC9, you're surprised with a Port Charlotte that's also affordable .
TASTING NOTES:
Body: There's a brilliant creaminess in the texture of this whisky, which brings about an even distribution of flavours on the palate and helps cool the peat fire that ignites all forms of Celtic Islay passion. This is a whisky with convincing character and absolute sincerity. Nothing is added and nothing is taken away, and that makes it a unique single malt.
Nose: I love the range of aromas that rise from the glass, almost as if one just to greet you. The peaty smokiness combined with the vanilla sweetness of the bourbon casks is truly magical. There's a spiral of really spicy black pepper and a lemony spiciness, then salty ripples across the palate like an incoming tide. This is accompanied by aromas and notes from the botanical aspects of Islay, heather moors and ancient pine forest. Nutmeg, cinnamon, wild mint and fantastically malty sweetness of spring grains wait patiently for its moment of escape.
Palate: Together they create a magical carpet, woven like the threads of an Islay cloth. A wonderful waltz of aromas, senses, scents and feelings that wander across the palate. An experience that captivates and uplifts, the art of enjoying traditional distilling without additives and without filtering the natural oils of sun-ripened grains.
Port Charlotte is our baby and is loved by everyone here at Fine Drops Online.
At Bruichladdich, we have done our best to ensure that ancient traditions and ancient knowledge result in you enjoying the most natural single malt possible.
Finish: The finish is a brilliant mix of vanilla and peat smoke with a splash of green fruit syrup.
About Port Charlotte
A heavily peated single malt, distilled on the Isle of Islay at Bruichladdich distillery.
Port Charlotte is Bruichladdich’s heavily-peated single malt, with a peating level of around 40ppm. Bruichladdich describes Port Charlotte as having ‘the power of peat with the elegance, complexity and floral top notes for which our Bruichladdich stills are famous’.
The first Port Charlotte release was the five-year-old PC5 Evolution, and successive bottlings have included Port Charlotte Islay Barley 2008 (distilled from barley grown on Coull, Kynagarry, Island, Rockside, Starchmill and Sunderland farms), Port Charlotte Scottish Barley Eòrna Na h-Alba (PC11) and the travel retail exclusive PC12 Oileanach Furachail. The latter marks the retirement of Bruichladdich master distiller Jim McEwan and the succession of Adam Hannett to the role.
The Port Charlotte brand commemorates the former Lochindaal distillery, which operated in the village of Port Charlotte two miles south of Bruichladdich from 1829 until 1929. Initially known as Port Charlotte distillery, the facility was making 128,000 gallons of spirit per annum during Alfred Barnard’s mid-1880s visit, which compared with Lagavulin’s 75,000 gallons and the 250,000 gallons being produced by Ardbeg at the time.
In 1920 Lochindaal’s owner, JF Sheriff & Co, was bought out by Benmore Distilleries but just nine years later Benmore was purchased by the Distillers Company Limited (DCL), which immediately closed Lochindaal.
The plant was subsequently removed although some of the buildings continued to be utilised by the now defunct Islay Creamery until the 1990s, while others were taken over by a garage business and Islay Youth Hostel. Two substantial, stone-built warehouses have remained in use for the maturation of spirit, and it is there that today’s Port Charlotte single malt is aged.
There too Bruichladdich planned to create a new distillery in which to produce heavily-peated whisky, but the plans never came to fruition, and it seems highly unlikely that distilling will return to the village since the acquisition of Bruichladdich by French company Rémy Cointreau in 2012.
The Bruichladdich team notes that ‘following his visit here [to Lochindaal] in 1885 Alfred Barnard wrote ‘Peat only is used in drying the malt, fired in open chauffeurs,’ a testament supported in a few surviving faded photographs showing the huge peat stacks waiting to be fed to the kiln fires. Port Charlotte is in essence a tribute to the men who worked Lochindaal.
Production of Port Charlotte at Bruichladdich commenced on 29 May 2001, and was the very first distillation carried out by the new distillery team after its revival in the hands of Murray McDavid, following five years of silence.
46% ABV
70cl
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