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Port Charlotte Islay Barley
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed January 12, 2016 (edited March 11, 2019)First off, excellent value for money. 50%abv, natural color, non-chill filtered, absolutely fantastic. This whisky is youthful, vibrant, fruity, full bodied, briney, salty, and rich. Now let's talk about the peat. At 40 ppm, although high it's nowhere near an ardbeg or laphroaig. I would say it's in between a highland park and ardbeg. It's peaty and you know it definitely there, but never overwhelming the fruity and briney flavours. It's absolutely fantastic. My favorite part about this whisky is that the peat flavour is a sweet juicy peat, no dark bbq roasted/rotten meat or vegetal peat. It's just a very clean smokey fruity peat like in caol ila 12. It's hard for me to say something bad about this, but I guess the only downside is that it's not terribly complex, as it's pretty young I'm assuming maybe 8yrs avg. But don't let that fool you, it's very good and considering what you're getting vs how much you're paying I'm giving it a 5/5 You'll like this if you like a vibrant, powerful, fruity, clean peat, smokey whisky Cheers -
GlenDronach Original 12 Year
Single Malt — Highlands, Scotland
Reviewed December 27, 2015 (edited August 14, 2017)A good whisky. I would say a medium bodied Sherri ed whisky (comparing to older glendronach and cask strength ones). It's nice and balanced, the only thing is the alcohol bite is a bit strong. So I rate this 8/10 -
Just bought a bottle of this. Its really good for the price, has lots of malt content as its pretty thick for a blend. Can smell the macallan and highland park right away. This is a highland style type of blend, very creamy and silky. Its obviously isn't the best scotch out there, but for the price its much better than the compeition thats why im giving it a 4 stars. Overall a very good budget scotch, surprisingly creamy and rich. Awesome!
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