This expression from Bruichladdich's Port Charlotte range is the first UK release in the Cask Exploration Series. Distilled in 2010 from barley peated to 40ppm, this single malt has been matured in a 50/50 split of first-fill American whiskey barrels and second-fill French wine barriques before being married together for one year in high provenance MR casks from the Bordeaux left bank.
The nose has powerful peat smoke with summer fruits and vanilla. The palate brings more peat and sweet fruits with toasted oak, maple syrup and chocolate coated coffee emerging, before a medicinal smoke in the finish with drying oak and creamy vanilla.
