Port Charlotte MRC:01 2010

Dark, smoked peat with oak, ginger and clove, vanilla and malt, salty brine, and barley. So good.

Smooth, nice peaty flavor but not super smoky

Most disappointing bruichladdich I've had. I've been a bit of a fan boy in the past, but I just don't enjoy this. Longrow Red and Kilchoman Am Burach are far superior offerings in the same space.

Very well balanced but a little hot. Really liked that they cut the red wine cask finish in half because red wine is just too over powering in my whiskies, by aging it half in bourbon it made for a nice balance between dark fruit and vanilla oak flavours well done thanks for an amazing dram.

Most finely balanced whiskey i have. Actually port charlotte, scottish barley, heavily peated. The lady LOVES🤮 the peat smoke pours out of my mouth hours afterward. Really sets the mood, you might say.

Amber-orange, plentiful thin legs. Smoke hits first - but it’s more of a mesquite and medicinal smoke. There’s carrot cake, dried fruits, brine, iodine, vanilla, orange rind, and lids of resin. In some ways I’m reminded of Lag 16 - lots of densely sweet and resinous notes, but no ash and the iodine shouldn’t be there. The brine and mesquite, smoked notes remind me of Springbank 12 cask strength but the funky kippers aren’t there and it’s a bit too dark. It has the heft of Ardbeg Cory but lacks the citrus. Just way more complex than Laphroig. Damn that’s hot!! Pins and needles hot. 120 proof hot, with little restraint. Coating mouthfeel. Cinnamon, mesquite smoke, iodine, oak, dried pineapple… maybe a dash of ash. The finish rests in the throat and is that same resinous sweetness. A drop of water brings out the iodine and grilled pineapple. The palate becomes creamier and more acidic with a bit more citrus than the first go round. There’s also a move from a dark resin to more cinnamon roll and toffee sweetness with prominent, slightly bitter oak and a hint of rancio. Interesting for sure and tips the scale toward increased complexity, but to each their own. Has to be Islay… but who? Thanks to @pkingmartin I’ve now gotten to to take a crack at Port Charlotte! I had snagged a 10 year that remains waiting to be opened but this bad boy… this is MRC:2010 and I was shockingly close on the proof. All 59.2 ABV hits up front and perhaps is a bit much. Water truly changed this and made it seem brighter and more aged at the same time… odd but it worked! Really lovely pour!