7.6 (8)
Brand
Port Charlotte
Expression
Islay Barley
Whisky type
Single Malt
Distillery
Bruichladdich Distillery
Origin
Islay, Scotland
ABV.
50.00%
Source
Bruichladdich
In collection
66×

Review by Port Charlotte

Colour

Gilded lily.

Nose

Totally disarming considering the age of the spirit. It opens with bracken and bluebells, then the warm crisp peat-dried barley with the smokiness drifting sensuously from the glass shadowed by a salt sea breeze. The brilliant aroma of toasted oak sugars combines with the succulent soft fruits from slow distillation. You will find guava, papaya and kiwi with a squeeze of lemon. It’s feisty, it’s fresh, it’s smoky, sweet, minty and marine.

Palate

The warmth of the spirit is impressive, not aggressive. It’s incredible. You have the dryness of the peat smoke together with soft fruits splashed with sea spray, all held in a crunchy basket of caramelised wood sugars sprinkled with lemon and pepper. It is a rare and special to experience a spirit that is 100% Islay, but also shining through is the artisanal skill of our distillers who, using the original Victorian equipment, are creating the most exciting single malts in the world today.

Finish

Parting from a special one is never easy, especially when you have enjoyed their company, lingering with every drop in the glass. Kick back and relax - the aromatics and flavours will stay with you for some time.

Note

Port Charlotte Islay Barley represents a milestone. For the first time, perhaps in the island’s history, a heavily-peated single malt has been distilled using Islay-grown barley.

The salt-laden rain that lashes the fields, and the Atlantic air breathed by the casks as they mature by the shores of Loch Indaal, gives the whisky its signature salty, citrus tang.

Harvested in Sepetember 2008 from the farms at Coull, Kynagarry, Island, Rockside, Starchmill & Sunderland, peated to 40 PPM, then distilled in December of the same year, this is a whisky of flawless provenance. A true Ileach.

Source: Bruichladdich