Port Charlotte 10 Year

Sweet smoke and citrus on the nose with some white pepper. Berries and zest, smoke with a bite on the palate.

A stunning drop, peaty but very balanced smells like ham but has a very balanced sweetness and spicyness....

2018 edition, purchased for $77 w/tax @total wine Colorado nose is out of this world. Iodine, a HINT of grandma's white diamonds perfume, BURNT peat, cherry juice. "lots going on here" gets overused but this is a real treat for the sense, hands down. palate was not what the nose immediately suggests to your brain. For me it was night and day but in a very good way. Sea breeze. Vanilla and sweet wood. Dark fruit orchard during bloom. Smoke is there from start until ALMOST the finish but disappears near the end quite pleasantly. Ice did not improve it. single cube, glass of rocks, it wasnt good. The ash notes and burn lose all there place and balance and create a very hot a sip with little I enjoyed. Vanilla completely drowns, etc. If you absolutely have to, give it the white gloves and check it drop-by-drop with top-shelf mineral water. room temp. I gave it 5/5 but I'm rounding from a 4.5. on the 1-100 This is easily in the low 90s (my mind anything above 90 is best-in-class or dramatic standout), maybe a 93.