Port Charlotte PC5 (1st Release) Single Malt Review
Port Charlotte lies just 2 miles south west of Bruichladdich distillery but at one time had it's own distillery, Loch Indaal, that had originally opened in 1829. It stayed in business for 100 years before closure in 1929 and it was renowned for its rich, peated spirit. Although renowned for making unpeated spirit, when Bruichladdich was brought back to life it was always in the plans for the distillery to make peated whisky alongside the unpeated spirit it was famous for. Jim McEwan even sought out the help of former Loch Indaal stillman, Ruaridh MacLeod, who reportedly knew the taste of the Loch Indaal spirit intimately, in his quest to reproduce that original Port Charlotte spirit flavour. Also by quirk of fate, although they wanted to produce unpeated spirit on their first spirit when the stills fired up, it was actually Port Charlotte spirit that was produced. In the mad rush to get the distillery gates re-opened for Feis Ile, there was a mix up with the Port Ellen malti...
