Ctrexman
Port Charlotte 10 Year
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed
January 3, 2020 (edited May 18, 2023)
Port Charlotte Heavily Peated 10 yr Islay. BDanner has been singing the praises of this for a while. Poured neat, nose is great...heavy bbq pit smoke, bread pudding, dark berry wine with classic laddie dusty library book malt and wood. Its deep and complex with more to tease out if you want. Palate is wonderful rich blast of peat smoke, ground coffee, salted brisket and some barrel char balanced with sweet malt and sherry like fruit along with chocolate orange and pancake batter. This is frigin awesome! Creamy smooth mouthfeel just adds tactile thrill to experience. Finish is long with smoky malt, pudding skin and raw vanilla supporting oil rubbed wood and earthy peat. This is up there my friends. Fantastic flavor and depth plus gets better with each pour and time is on your side. More $ than Lap/Ard 10 but you get more imo. Lag 16 takes it so does Oogie but PC10 is in the conversation..........95/100......cheers enjoy!
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@Ctrexman I rank this right up there with my two favorite Peated, Lag16 & Lap10.
Just finished off a bottle of this wonderful scotch. Gotta say in the realm of readily available core bottles in the peated realm this is at the top of the class
🤙gonna give myself a quick @benjif for helping spread the gospel on this one
@Ctrexman read your review yesterday and dug my bottle out and enjoyed a pour. Delicious.
Port Charlotte is great, but the 10 is even better. It's like Octomore lite...and if you can't find an Octomore, this is a good intro of the base notes the Octo's have. Great review!
I liked this one as well. Different from other Islay malts. I got a funky blue cheese not when I tried this that added a savory element to the experience.
Great review. This has been on my “try soon” list for too long.
Nice review! I loved this initially but after a while open it seemed to oxidize pretty quick so Loch Gorm 2019 is my go to now..age wears well on it.
The juxtaposition of smoke bomb, bandaids and sugar cookies on this is surreal
Try to find one of their limited releases like CC:01 2007 and MC:01 2009. They’re just superb!