Port Charlotte 16yo 2001-2017 (59.7%, Archives)
Port Charlotte 2001-2013 (59.2%, Malts of Scotland)
Bruichladdich 19 yo 2988-2007 (58.5%, OB)
Here is the second part of my tasting dedicated to making me forget about wine cask Bruichladdich/PC. For the moment, it works pretty well, let’s see if continues that way.
Wild Parrot South Pacific Sansibar 2009-2019 (62.3%)
Wild Parrot Hampden Sansibar 2009-2020 (63.8%)
Sansibar Caroni 1997-2020 (55.5%)
Jens Drewitz (Sansibar-Whisky) is releasing whisky & rum bottlings, he’s often working with the well-known IB Wild Parrot, let’s see what we’ve got here!
Port Charlotte 14yo 2004-2019 (53.4%, Dramfool)
Port Charlotte 12yo 2003-2016 (65.9%, SMWS)
Port Charlotte 11 yo 2002-2013 (54.7%, Maltbarn)
The last time I reviewed some Bruichladdich/PC bottles it didn’t finished that well, so today I’ll give them another round without any wine cask around!
Velier Caroni Nita Hogan 2000 (65.2%)
Velier Caroni Ganesh Ramgobie 1998 (67%)
Velier Caroni Vijay Ranmarine 1996 (64.5%)
These are the first Employees trio of 2020, from three different vintages. It’s actually as rare to find a review as it is to find a bottle of these, so let’s go!
Bruichladdich 22yo 1992-2014 (50.7%, OB)
Bruichladdich 8yo 2009-2018 (63.6%,S. Eldvatten)
Port Charlotte 6yo 2007-2014 (62.9%, OB « Palaemon »)
Port Charlotte 14yo 2004-2018 (58.9%, Pvt. bottling)
When the moment came to choose what to test today, I felt brave and decided to grab two samples I tried to hide for a long time. I’m really not a fan of wine cask maturation in most cases (to say the least!) but when I started in the whisky world I didn’t knew about it. So let’s be brave and try those!
Saint James 2008 Velier 70th anniversary (60.8%)
Saint James 2003 Confrérie du rhum (59%)
Bally 2000 LMDW The chronicles (58.1%)
Bally 2000 Corman Collins (56.8%)
The first Rhum with a « H » review. These four are some special bottlings I always wanted to try!
Ballechin 12yo 2004-2016 (53.7%, OB)
Ballechin 16yo 2003-2019 (58.9%, Signatory Vintage)
Ballechin are the heavily peated distillate from Edradour distillery. A good friend makes me test those bottles that he particularly enjoys as daily drams. I hope I’ll love those too!
Cadenhead’s Uitvlugt 1993 (49.9%)
The Rum Mercenary Uitvlugt 1997 (49.1%)
Velier Port Mourant 1997 (65.7%)
Velier Uitvlugt 1996 Modified GS (57.2%)
Let’s start the second part with my top 4 of this article.
Duncan Taylor Uitvlugt 1997 (52.8%)
The Nectar Uitvlugt 1998 (52.1%)
The Rum Mercenary Port Mourant 2002 (51.7%)
In the 90’s the Uitvlugt distillery used several stills: Savalle, Port Mourant and Versailles. I tasted a bunch of 7 of these Guyanese bottlings and tried to identify which still was used for each one.
Clynelish 25 yo 1993-2018 (47.7%, SMWS)
Clynelish 19 yo 1995-2014 (52.7%, Whisky-Fässle)
Clynelish 1995-2018 (53.6%, Signatory V. for LMDW)
Today I’m trying multiple Clynelish bottlings from the 90’s and I’m pretty sure we are going to have some fun!
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