Bruichladdich
Port Charlotte MRC:01 2010 (7 year old) 59.2%

40 PPM
50% First Fill American oak/ 50% Second Fill French Red Wine – vated and finished in ex-left bank red Bordeaux casks for 1 year.
Dist: 2010 Btl: 2018
Tasted: Nov 2018
A lovely mellow and woody nose with a distinct French oak grainy tannic character. Hints of vanilla, medicinal peat, red fruit, leather, earth and dry peat smoke emerge. With time a smidge of coconut, black pepper and dark chocolate.

The palate is soft and mellow, with dried redcurrant/ cherry, earth, medicinal peat and like the nose a distinct grainy French oak character. The alcohol although quite high is impeccably contained by the weight of the spirit. Very complex and mouth-filling with treacle, tar, dark chocolate, dry peat and gritty peat smoke. Long and medicinal with lingering menthol, bog myrtle and tar.

Water makes the nose slightly oilier and waxy. It’s less woody with more emphasis on the dried fruit. Subtler peat notes as well. It also emphasises the dried red fruit and earth on the palate. Still quite medicinal and sinus cleansing but the peat is drier and dustier.

See my YouTube review in The Good Dram Show Episode 295 - https://youtu.be/1RqnknrLI5E