Port Charlotte 2007 CC:01<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0. It\u00a0has been matured full term in casks of the finest French oak [Quercus robur] which previously held one of the greatest Eau de Vie, from the western Cognac region. This travel retail exclusive comes at 57.8% ABV.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Nose:<\/strong> You can’t imagine how this marriage of Islay and South-West France got me excited… Maybe my two favourite regions in the world – that’s a lot of expectations! And the nose was a first step to my little paradise… Which actually kept all its promises: of course the Port Charlotte’s smoky and peaty signature shows at first sniff, with some pleasant sea breeze but also fruity notes of ripe peaches. The nose also shows some aromas of sweet spices, meringue, brown sugar, melted butter and cold tobacco.<\/p>\nPalate:<\/strong> Vibrant, and complex mouth with a rich orchard fruit basket, citrusy, vanilla, cinnamon rolls, cloves, cardamom and sweet ginger notes – all lost in an oasis of sea salt, peat and smoke. An incredible depth of flavours for this expression – probably the result of its uncommon maturation. A killer dram!<\/p>\nFinish:<\/strong> the peat smoke has decided to settle for some time, and I won’t complain about that.<\/p>\nRecommended Food pairing:<\/strong> citrus-cured salmon gravadlax *drooling*<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A few weeks ago already (I know, I’m running late on my review schedule… Shhhh,\u00a0you’re not without knowing GoT started again right a few weeks ago… Coincidence? I don’t think so!), Bruichladdich released two new travel retail expressions and I had the chance to receive a sample of both *insert sunglasses emoji here* – Let’s then review them! First new release I’m reviewing today …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[230],"tags":[343,212,666,44,665,664],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}