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February 26, 2025
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The Port Charlotte Case, Half 6
We merely keep it up…
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Port Charlotte 10 yo 2011/2021 (62.3%, Sansibar, bourbon, 235 bottles) 
Right here’s a stunning conventional label that exudes the spirit of the Nineties. Color: chardonnay. Nostril: the pleasure of final simplicity, with lemon, inexperienced apple, mercurochrome, clay, a touch of smoked fish, then baker’s yeast and heaps of ashes. A little bit contact of yellow melon. And there you’ve gotten it. With water: clay, almond milk and contemporary bread, plus hints of contemporary mint. Mouth (neat): oily, immensely highly effective, in fact, a type of combine of fifty% iodine tincture and 50% pure lemon juice. With water: much more lemony. Smoked grapefruit liqueur. End: lengthy, with these beautiful bitters that marry so effectively with lemon. Campari and limoncello, salute! Feedback: the cask was relatively lively, it appears. Magnificent younger PC.
SGP:656 – 88 factors. |
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Port Charlotte 16 yo 2001/2017 (59.7%, Archives, barrel, cask #278, 212 bottles)
Right here we’ve got it once more, the primary classic of PC. Color: white wine. Nostril: identical normal profile because the earlier one, however brisker, extra maritime, and relatively extra complicated, with these beautiful little herbs and tisanes as well as… Was 2001 the very best classic of Port Charlotte? Or was it merely a much less lively and extra delicate cask? With water: that well-known previous Harris Tweed jacket that has seen many rains and storms, and as soon as once more, contemporary bread. Mouth (neat): the creamy facet returns, with loads of smoked and mentholated citrus. Magnificent lemon and a really, very gentle contact of coconut. Not so inactive, that cask, in any case. With water: we merely should point out limoncello as soon as once more. End: lengthy, creamy, and totally stunning… and lemony. Feedback: the peat has mellowed a bit, and it’s really beautiful.
SGP:655 – 89 factors. |
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Port Charlotte 17 yo 2001/2018 (53.3%, Maltbarn, bourbon, 155 bottles)
Color: straw. Nostril: this one is a bit more metallic, extra marked by pine and cedar wooden, together with oysters and some touches of pure rubber. Apart from that, ripe apples and pink grapefruit, in addition to loads of limestone and clay. With water: a touch of vanilla emerges, together with uncooked wool and brioche dough. Mouth (neat): sauvignon blanc, citron, marshmallow, honey, chamomile, liquorice. Nothing to discard. With water: magnificent touches of salted liquorice, then a drop of violet liqueur, and eventually a bit bag of gummi bears. End: pretty lengthy, very citrusy, with peat that tiptoes away. Feedback: it appears this one has already digested a part of its peat. Very, very, very charmingly totally different, the truth is.
SGP:654 – 88 factors. |
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Port Charlotte 12 yo 2003/2016 (60.4%, OB for Les Passionnés du Malt, contemporary fill bourbon, cask #816, 241 bottles)
An official/personal bottling for a really, very high-level French membership. Color: white wine. Nostril: as soon as once more, nice purity, relatively mineral and medicinal (camphor and damp chalk) for the second. With water: crystalline, salty, peaty, peppery, excellent in its type. Mouth (neat): basic, creamy, clearly peatier than the 2001 and 2002. Loads of lemon, plasticine, small oysters and heaps of ashes. With water: it turns into softer and juicier. Little tart apples emerge, together with honey and white clover. End: lengthy, with the arrival of a contact of cough syrup. Honey and fig spirit within the aftertaste. You virtually want you had a cough, actually. Feedback: frankly, that is wonderful, bravo Bruichladdich and Les Passionnés (and apologies for the nine-year delay).
SGP:656 – 89 factors. |
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Port Charlotte 16 yo 2005/2022 (54.6%, Relaxation & Be Grateful, ex-wine hogshead, cask #1577, 272 bottles) 
All is effectively in the very best of all attainable worlds (yeah proper), however might we no less than know what sort of wine it was, whereas we’re at it? And maybe whether or not it was European oak? Color: gold. Nostril: there’s clearly a further coating that may solely come from the wine, however which wine precisely? Pretty notes of panettone, raisin rolls, maple syrup, sultanas, and candied orange zest… All very good, however in return, the peat turns into relatively discreet. With water: contemporary barley and a contact of hay smoke, nonetheless with light citrus. And panettone! Mouth (neat): every kind of citrus liqueurs, white chocolate (yep), toasted sesame and pistachios, then a sensation of lemon nougat. There’s virtually a touch of cognac. With water: an avalanche of pistachios and orange marshmallows. End: pretty lengthy, on related notes. Feedback: did the wine eat the peat? That mentioned, it’s excellent, little doubt about it. So, which wine was it?
SGP:654 – 87 factors. |
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