Daracha is a norwegian importer of foreign spirits, and they've succeeded in getting two casks of Port Charlotte bottled for them. Creds! Time to taste those two.
Port Charlotte 10yo 2002-2012 %? OB for Daracha cask#1168
This one was kept in a bourbon hogshead for 10 years, should be a well refined peatster. These PC's are sure coming a bit of age these days, perhaps its time for them to really blossom? The color on this one is amber orange. It smells peat, spirity, honey, leather, caramel, burn sugar, licorice, minty, ashes, smoke, vanilla, sulphur, rubbery, salty. What a start! The taste is intens, peppery, peaty, smoky, cigar notes, butter, green chillies, ginger. This is a taste-bomb, and you gotta love it a bit rough, a whisky that really rocks!
I wish I had a cask, let alone a bottle of this: 9
Port Charlotte 10yo 2002-2012 60% Adelphi for Daracha cask#1162
One from a sherry hogshead. Peat and sherry oak often give varied results, but when the match is right the result can be the best of the best. How funny, the bourbon casked one in this session was deep amber, while the sherried one is merely golden. I guess Ralfy was right all along. It smells honey, buttery, sage, leaves, onions, grassy shrimps and crab meat, coastal, but in a weird fashion. I can't go much further on the nose, but its one you gotta try! The taste is sweet, vanilla, licorice, peppermint, sage, black olives, burnt rubber, glue, rich and creamy, but this intense bitterness almost kills it off. I guess the bitter and peaty notes kinda works in a very strange way.
Another one you gotta try: 7.5
Next tasting: Loch Lomond (grain)
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