pkingmartin
Port Charlotte MRC:01 2010
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed
December 17, 2020 (edited April 21, 2024)
Wow this is something incredible! I got carried away on this one and am just now getting to reviewing this on my second bottle.
This is a perfect balance of wine and young peated whiskey. The nose is so complex with sweet peat, cherries, raspberries, blackberries, vanilla, cinnamon, caramel, nutmeg and pie crust. The taste is equally complex with a viscous mouthfeel that starts with all the raspberry, blackberry, cherry fruits from the wine exploding on your tongue, then a slow transition to the those sweet peat smoke notes that finishes with ease and lasts for minutes.
For a 7 year old whiskey, this really delivers a lot. I tried it blind against an Ardbeg Blaaack Committee edition and this was my favorite. Considering the Blaaack cost me 30 dollars more, this is the better bottle for the money.
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@Bourbon_Obsessed_Lexington Oh, yeah! I can see this be a middle ground between Lagavulin and Ardbeg. This was definitely a high octane whisky, but a fun one nonetheless.
I feel like if all the Islay’s I’ve had it lands between Ardbeg and Lagavulin, almost squarely so. Proof blew me away and honestly the first time water really opened something up for me!!