Bruichladdich Port Charlotte 10 Heavily Peated Islay Scotch
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
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I tried this at a bar for the first time yesterday; absolutely lovely stuff and I will be buying a bottle when I am at the distillery next month. 🤗
Nice
I had my 46th birthday on July 12 .....my boss shouted me a dram of this whisky ....outstanding beautiful arrival and nice end
Shouted Drams sounds like a great Top 5 (fun) list to film. I can hear myself yelling "dickel Rye!!!!!"
Great review to kick off the new year! Looks like a contender. I don't think Bruichladdich can do wrong. Cheers Scott and Bart!
thanks Richie!
Been crushing the PC MC:01 incredible (marsala Cask). Picked up the MRC:01 (Bordeaux). Love what Bruichladdich is doing with these. Great job gents.
I still need to get thr MC:01, the rest I got, incl. the Feis Ile bottle ;)
those sound great.
Those French wine casks they use add a really nice layer to it. Unfortunately, the price has increased from £39-£42 to £55-£60 in less than 12 months, here in the UK. Whisky prices are spiralling out of control.
happening in the states too...
Just a wonderful whisky...allspice, dark stone fruit, salt spray, mass vanillins, oyster shell, seaweed, & campfire pit embers...God bless Bruichladdich for it's genesis, and God bless The Dummies for the outstanding review!
Well done, gents! 👏
Sláinte Mhaith 🥃
Thanks Strong
You tested it!! I snapped a bottled on a quick trip to UK this summer. I liked the new bottle design and for £49 it was great value when you consider it’s a 10y Islay natural presentation and 50% abv. The whisky inside didn’t disappoint either.
indeed! thanks ebbhead!
Great review as always... Sandeep is a generous man! It was so good to meet him. :)
yes it was!
Very nice Sandeep. Was great meeting you that weekend. Love the Port Charlotte! Not so sure about being slapped around in the face though, 😂. Great review guys.
slap slap
Finally a small number of bottles made their way to Idaho! I was lucky to find one and all I can say is it is Delicious! Peaty with a viscous mouthfeel and drinks way under its proof...thanks for the recommendation.
thanks mwmac! this is a good one!
Fantastic whiskey! Port Charlotte and Ardbeg 10 are my favorites 👌
yes! thanks KC
Try Ledaig 10 if you haven’t KC. Same lane, integrity bottling and fantastic stuff as well.
@@BrianAudia definitely will, thank you
We reviewed the older style bottle of Islay Barley heavily peated, NAS version and we both loved it. It's currently Mike's favorite whisky to date. I wonder how much different the 10 year edition is.
It is very good stuff
Salty, vanilla, orange, and cream... And smoke! Great review guys! This stuff is fantastic. It most reminds me of a smoked green Spot or something, except red apple instead of green.
this bottle is delicious!
This is the second Islay scotch I have tried. Laphroaig 10 being the first, which is very peaty for me and I need to drink it with 1 small ice cube. This one is much lighter and sweeter, the peat is definitely there but much more approachable IMO. Great review guys.
spot on, thanks crowell
love the Scotch not the noise
haha Scott agrees
Don't know if this is for me, but I'try it. Great stories, good stuff. Thankyou Scott, thank you Bart!!
It packs the peat Luis.
Smokygood experience review
Indeed
I’m fairly new to peated whisky. Can’t decide whether to try this or Ardbeg 10 next..
We say both! If you can’t do both do this. The Ardbeg 10 will be there waiting like a trusted friend
Great timing as I just bought a bottle, love all the Bruichladdich offerings. Great Review guys.
great timing!
Man the "test it"s just keep getting better 😂😂
Boom
Great review fellas. Haven’t explored enough Bruichladdich yet, I’m fortunate that they are plentiful in my area, prolly why I look past. Tried the Bere Barley recently & was impressed with that offering. Cheers!
this is a must!
Picked up a bottle today and got very lucky... The barcode wouldn't scan so the associate had to look it up. They couldn't find it under 'Port Charlotte' so I said try looking under 'Bruichladdich'. They found the Bruichladdich 10 year and charged me for that instead of the Port Charlotte 10. The shelf price was $68.99 but I only paid $47.99! ;-)
score!
Great video dummies. Anxiously awaiting your best of 2018 vids, hope those are in the works
they are coming up!
Why have I never tried a PC? The shame weighs heavily... Now there's a New Years resolution ;-) Great review guys!
if you like peat, this is a must try!
Oh, if you love this, you NEED the 2011 Islay barley version of Port Charlotte. Which happens to be the winner of Gold in the 2018 iLaddie Whisky Nerd Awards. This was Bronze medal. :)
definitely ! thanks rombout!
Good job on this one, guys... I wonder if this expression is the same as the Port Charlotte 10 that I had in 2015. Then the Second Limited Edition was available to me in 2017, and it was not the same, having had some sherry influence... I look forward to the local return of the regular PC10!
could be they switch up the finishing Quig.
Nice one Sandeep... what a great weekend.
Sandeep is awesome! thanks Jason!
I'm going to have to get a bottle, I have come to really enjoy peated whisk(e)y. Great review!!
Welcome to the club brother. bart
Looking forward to trying this one as well! Love the new bottles.
thanks Dylan!
Good video with plenty of expressive flavour notes.
It's very interesting that at 4:40 you say that you identify sweetness but don't know if it's very good quality Ex-Bourbon barrels or some sherry influence. Sweetness from Ex-Bourbon barrels will be a combination of the new make spirit white wine, the malted barley cream and the vanillin from the new American white oak which adds vanilla, fudge, mapel syrup, toffee sweetness. Sherry sweetness will be dark fruits, dry fruits and fruit cake flavour swetness. Sweet yes, but a very diferent kind of swetness! Secondly, it's worth thinking about the idea that there can be a combination of sweetness from more than one cask type.
A little diggging shows that Bruichladdich consistantly use a rich combination of sherry, wine and Ex-Bourbon casks for their Port Charlette so you are going to get a combination of different types of sweetness. It's a pitty that they don't state the cask types on the canister. It really annoys me whenever I see "matured in Oak" on the label. What else could it be Bruichladdich? Ash? Beach? Cherry or Apple tree wood? In fact, SWA regulations state that Scotch can ONLY be matured in Oak so this statement is of absoultely no value whatsoever. For a distillery that boasts being transparent and giving you all the infor, statements like this, really are irritating
You know, just before Mark Reiner was booted out of Bruichladdich, he had plans to rebuild the old Lochindaal/Port Charlette Distillery just up the road from Bruichladdich at Port Charlette, You can still see evidence of the old Port Charlette distillery. If you look at Shore Street in Port Charlette you will see an identical pier to the one outside Bruichladdich which was used to bring casks in and out. It would be great if Remy Cointrea decided to rebuild the distillery. They already own the rights to the name.
Thanks Reb. Great comment and discerning of the types of sweetness. WE've heard one can go to the website (bruichladdich), type in the batch code from the bottle, and find out more information. Have not tried it yet to see how much is revealed by batch.
Took me a minute to realise you were wearing a Scotch 4 Dummies t-shirt, and not a Scotch Test Dummies t-shirt :P Very keen to try this Port Charlotte 10.
we like those guys! This is a great bottle, made my top 5 for 2018. Scott
I love the Port Charlotte, What I got out of it is how it's like a Laphroaig 10 with a bit more kick but also not quite punching you in the face as the Laphroaig (I know sounds like i'm contradicting myself).
Also one thing that still amazes me is how Bruichladdich does a Scotch that doesn't feel or taste like the ABV is as high as it is.
great points, thanks!
I haven't seen it up here either. Good video. Thanks.
You bet Dude
Love this stuff! Just picked up a bottle a few days ago.
Nice
Best "Test it" ever.
don't encourage him. Scott
I'm surprised (in a good way) that the price off most whisky's isn't going up. This morning I went afther a port charlotte 10y heavily peated for 66euro (just to find out that this afternoon then my delivery came with also a port charlotte 10 and an ardbeg 10 (needed a second bottle because that's my daily dram) . Now I have lagavulin 8, Laphroaig 10 batch 13 and 14 cask strength 2 bottles off ardbeg 10 and then 2 off Port Charlotte. We'll yeah they're almost all opened. I need another lagavulin 12 and a 16 defenitly but I will order online. Then I'm good for a while. Any suggestions for an other Islay whisky that's not ardbeg, lagavulin or Laphroaig? Something that's not known so much? I would like to hear it otherwise.
Cheers🥃 nice review!
Shhhhh
@@ScotchTestDummies Ow yeah I'm sorry. You're right. Also 1 question where do you get those coins? (Also I live in Belgium/Europe) what are they called?
I love this stuff! Was that a test iiiiiitttt record?? Well done Bart.
Nope live and loud...you can tell by Scott...wanting it to end
You guys do really great and entertaining tastings! Thanks a lot! If you like this go for the Islay Barly, which I think has got more edges and is therefore more "honest", or the amazing MRC:01 or some of the multiple Port Charlotte Valinch Bottlings if you can grab one. Amazing stuff! Regards from Germany
Awesome! thanks Thomas!
Bart: fellow smoke lover here. Do you feel that this whisky tasted smokier/ashier than Ardbeg 10? I know that the Ardbeg 10 (which i love) has the big 50 ppm number, but of course the ppm number by itself doesn't necessarily always decide which TASTES smokier/ashier. I really want to maximize the smoke/ash taste for under $100. Thanks!
Thank you Leo. You Peat Head!!!!
Great video guys! I just picked up the older style bottle of NAS Port Charlotte Scottish barley and love it. Do you or anyone on the thread have any tasting note comparisons between the Scottish barley and the Islay barley? Just wondering if the Islay is worth the extra $10.
we don't have that but we should do it.
Bart - love that t-shirt! Great review to start things off in the new year with some excellent heavily peated material. It was fun to watch you both having such a good time with the tasting notes and getting so much out of this new bottling. If I remember right, they used mostly ex-bourbon casks for this dram, but there's a 25% component of French wine casks in there as well, which probably explains the red fruits and sweet wine grape notes you were picking up during the tasting. No idea if the casks were from red or white wine, but they were probably quite active casks since they would've been purchased a good decade or more ago by ex-owner Mark Reynier who had good contacts in the French wine industry. And the casks have to be used. Looks like Bruichladdich have landed a winner here. I'm still enjoying my bottle of the former 10yo 2nd Edition from a couple of years ago (in the old bottle) and loving every sip. Many thanks for the review, guys. Cheers!
Thanks Russell. And if you like that shirt it's available on our web site...
@@ScotchTestDummies Done and dusted - just put my order through. Cheers!
Boom! thanks Russell!
Great review guys! This just showed up in my area. I was told that this is going to be a new part of the PC core line!
we hope it is!
Great malt, spot on review; I named it peated whisky of the year 2018 on my Instagram account
good call!
I was a big fan of this stuff.
we can see why!
Another great one guys! Keep it up!🥃
thanks Bourbinsane!
Great review guys on the Port Charlotte 10 Heavily Peated Single Malt Sc otch, and I think I will have to stop passing it by. Why is this expression cheaper than the Nas in the blue cannister? I think I'll have to pick up a few. Cheers!
I’ve seen the gray can and white Islay can. I have not seen the blue one.
Another great review guys!
Thanks Simon
You're welcome guys,always good videos.I am thinking of getting this bottle,i have not tried lots of peated scotch but the taste profile sounds amazing.I love Bunnahabhain.
I have the second edition that I’m waiting to open, great review guys!
Thanks Howard
You also scored the Laproaig 18 a 92. Which one do you prefer and why?
two different whiskies, the L18 is older, smoother and the PC10 younger harsher peat. Depends on what you're looking for
"Hot Dog On A Stick" -- great band name. Just checked online at an ABC close to me (our Comrades of Liquor) they have two bottles of this left -- see ya later!
Nice
This one did not land for me. I got a bottle of this and shared it with friends. I didn't get much subtle flavor from this one. The entry was cut grass, some sawdust, and not much else, then some sweetness and finally smoke. I haven't had an Islay have such an empty taste before. I am halfway through the bottle, hopefully it will grow a bit in the bottle. Not sure when I will pull it off the shelf over my other Islays though.
very odd stuff for work. wonder if it is just a bad bottle?
@@ScotchTestDummies I hope so. Normally I agree or can at least see what you and other whiskey tubers are talking about, but this one was a terrible miss for me.
Is this a lot more peated than the Scottish Barley? I really like that.
I think it's about the same. We need to do a direct compare vs...
Scotch Test Dummies Maybe a Port Charlotte or even a Bunna Blind Challenge?👍
#Sandeep style!! He gave me the Yamazaki 12. Great dude!
very nice! thanks Jeff.
When Luther went to Port Charollte and was told to recant.
For he could do no other!
I just picked up a bottle. 😁
excellent!
For my Peaty Scotch journey, I've so far bought Lagavulin 16 > Ardbeg 10 > Laphroaig 10 > Talisker 10. My next bottle will be either this Port Chalrotte or Caol Ila 12, depending on which I can find in nearby liquor stores. Interestingly, as a novice to Peaty Scotch, I couldn't handle Lagavulin 16 at first. It came across as an iodine blast. Perhaps it's more rich character was the hurdle? Whatever the case, going through other Peaty ones more "light" like Laphroaig 10 and Ardbeg 10, perhaps the palate got adjusted so that I now can handle and enjoy the more rich Lagavulin 16. When I'm feeling the need for a beach fire during a sunny day, I go Laphroaig 10. At Sunset, Lag 16. At dark under moonlight, Ardbeg 10. Anyways, you guys have an awesome channel. You are humourous and just like to have fun with your tasting videos. Thank you!
Ok, just found and bought Port Charlotte. Seems Light & Citrusy Bright like Laphroaig 10, but a notch down on smoke level. Still sufficiently smokey/peaty, but just more gentle, doesn't blast you with peat. Very smooth. Fresh. I haven't gotten Caol Ila 12 yet, but so far, I'd say Port Charlotte might be a great option for someone just sampling a Peaty Scotch for the first time.
thanks to you Stephen!
is it the Port Charlotte 10?
@@ScotchTestDummies Yes, the Port Charlotte 10. Wonderful stuff.
I have 2 questions if I may
1) when you guys mention a price of a bottle.. is that the price before tax or with tax included in the price?
2) Is this one as good as the port Charlotte 10 2nd edition?? I cant seem to find any information on how they compare (if they do at all).
Thanks!
Not sure on the comparison Catnap, haven't seen the 2nd edition. sometimes the quoted price is with tax probably and sometimes without. Our tax isn't that much on liquor here in kansas, maybe 7%.
@@ScotchTestDummies Thanks Bart or Scott! :D Slainta clause!
Have you "gods" ever done a video on peated American whiskies? I would be interested ...
separate reviews of Westland Peated and McCarthy's, but haven't looked at them side by side.
I dunno…. There’s something about the initial peat that is very bitter (and/or sour) to me.
I like the wine influence and I DO love laphroaig 10, select and wee beastie so it’s not the AMOUNT of peat…. It’s the dry bitterness that I don’t like……yet?
I understand you
How would it compare to a Laphroiag 10 or Ardbeg 10? Worth paying the extra £10 for a bottle of PC10?
all different, but I think its worth the extra 10. Scott
@@ScotchTestDummies Cheers Scott, bought it for £40 delivered. I would say it is a touch above Laphroiag Quarter Cask so a bit of a bargain!
Off topic. How many video do you do a month? I would like to become a patreon. Thanks!
William, we do 10-12 videos a month. With Patreon you can pledge per video and/or you can cap it. So you can do $1 per video with no limit, or you can do $1 per video with a $1 max! Basically you can choose how much you'd like to pledge! Thanks for the support!
@@ScotchTestDummies Awesome. Thanks!. I am a patreon with other whiskey channels. However, the other ones are with the cost per month. I am a Patreon member as of today. Thanks for what you both do!
Awesome! thank you William!
Did someone say said Bruichladdich? Did someone say Port Charlotte? The juice is like a porn addiction in a bottle. I can't stop, even if my palms get hairy.
this one is beautiful!
love to try it but can't get past the price of 10 year old being that of a 16 year old Lagavullin
prices are always all over like that, don't let it influence your whisky choices! But to try!
@@ScotchTestDummies challenge accepted. i got a gift card for xmas, tried it and must say it is now my 3rd fav Scotch. Thank you STD
65% 1ST FILL AMERICAN WHISKEY CASKS
10% 2ND FILL AMERICAN WHISKEY CASKS
25% 2ND FILL FRENCH WINE CASKS
👍👌
and the wine casks pay off!
When will your best whiskies of 2018 come out?
Working on it! Soon!
So glad you're done doing the stupid Advent calendar month! Those guys must've loved u for the free advertising and marketing!!
It was fun for us too
Not for me lol
Claire the 3rd alway have something negative to say. Oh Claire.
@@WhiskyInThe6 said I was glad it's done, that's positive lol
Claire the 3rd lol
The opening really threw me off. Moving on to other videos... Sorry I was unwilling to stick around to see what the content is like. But at least you got this feedback.
Blame Bart
Yeaaaa, it's Bart's time, Boom 💥...test iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit, Boom 💥
Boom!!!!
Got the Luther quote there Bart 👍
Boom
Pine tar, Pine tar nose and pallet!
Boom and delicious
Sand shallow? Sand deep?
Sandeep!
Somewhat pricey here in Oz at $115 AUD but it is a lovely complex, tasty, meaty drop.
nice, thanks Patrick.
mmmm....peat..LOL
this is a good one!
It’s great stuff and I can get it for $50 here in OKC! Great review as usual.
Also dummies - my bros and I started a channel so be sure and check it out!
@Distilled/405
Cheers!
Thanks Daniel. You have some great prices and whisky stores in OKC