Port Charlotte 10 Year Old 2001 Francois Pichard Reserve

Port Charlotte Scottish Barley Heavily Peated

This is my first Port Charlotte. If I’m honest, I’ve probably steered clear of them because I think most of the Bruichladdich bottles are ugly – give me a traditional looking bottle any day (yes, I’m that fickle). Anyway, after reading many a review, it was @RianC who finally convinced me to try it. Thanks, mate. The blurb says: “Peated to a...

Score 88/100

Port Charlotte 12 Year Old 2001 Malts of Scotland Sherry Hogshead

Contrary to the previously tasted PC on Rioja wine cask, this one has matured in a sherry hogshead. At the same time, a PC on bourbon cask was released as well. I am putting this one next to it. Great farmy nose with an underlying fruit layer of peach and pineapple. Wet hay, walnuts, beeswax. Very, very nice. Some butterscotch too. And oranges...

Score 87/100

Port Charlotte An Turas Mor

Nose: Victorian London, all sooty smoke, smoggy, with an assortment of aromas from stale fish and over ripe fruit to cooking fires. Palate: Sweet at first, balanced and easy with gooseberries poached in cream, then the trademark smoke and peat but not as fierce and aggressive as in the past. You're expecting Jack The Ripper, you get the Artful...

Score 90/100

Port Charlotte 2002/2012 Malts of Scotland

Okay, this young Port Charlotte matured on a sherrycask and was bottled at a whopping cask strength of 63,1% ABV. Let me run downstairs to the garage to fetch my helmet. This is most likely going to be a rough ride. Peat and sherry is a combination that I have never found easy. Here we go. At first I get all the coastal notes on the nose: salt,...

Score 84/100