Port Charlotte PC6
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(6y, 61.6%, ex-bourbon + madeira casks, 2001-2007, 18000 bottles)
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Nose: Brine, honey, smoke, apricot, lemon custard, ginger, malt, damp wool
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Taste: Apricot, lemon custard, malt, cayenne pepper, ash, honey, brine, faint rubber
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Finish: Cardamom, malt, ash, cayenne pepper
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Massive peat presence, but well balanced by sweetness and spice with a buttery malt and underlying salinity. There are traces of light earthy funk, like grated potatoes or wet wool towards the tail end. Syrupy texture, with a rich and full mouthfeel. More of the same notes that were in the nose, with an even greater intensity… impressively very well balanced still. The finish is more simplistic in approach, primarily creamy and spicy (with the fruitiness gone but the remainder picking up the slack) along with some lingering salt
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This is a big, bold whisky that is an unrelenting assault on the senses (in a good way), with raw and intense notes from start to finish. Impressively nails the balance between sweetness, spice and peat given the youth and massive flavours, while the syrupy texture is quite noteworthy as well
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