Sholom Ackelsberg
  • Nose: 24 Palate: 23 Finish: 24 Balance: 23 Total: 94
  • Nose: Maple-smoked bacon
  • Palate: Viscous, smoky and ashy
  • Finish: Long - smoky initially, then dry star anise, followed by very late sweetness
  • Type: Single Malt
  • Age: 16
  • ABV: 55.8%
  • Distiller: Bruichladdich (Remy Cointreau)
  • Where made: Bruichladdich, Isle of Islay SCOTLAND
  • Region: Islay
  • Approximate Price: $240
  • Value: GOOD

Port Charlotte is the heavily-peated whisky product line from Bruichladdich. The Port Charlotte 16 Yr is the Feis Ile 2020 bottling from Bruichladdich. There are 3000 bottles in the release. I purchased the bottle from Bruichladdich's on-line ballot. This is the oldest Port Charlotte released to date. It was distilled in 2003 from Scottish Barley. The new-make was filled into three different parcels of casks: Parcel One / Refill hogsheads, re-casked into first fill bourbon barrels in 2012. Parcel Two / First fill bourbon barrels, re-casked into ex-Sauternes casks in 2013. Parcel Three / A complex assemblage of ex-sherry, ex-bourbon and virgin oak casks.

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