Port Charlotte 2002 MoS

Name: Port Charlotte 2002 MoS
Brand: Port Charlotte
SKU: 99796
Rating: 87.77 (95 reviews)

Overall rating: 87.77/100
votes: 95

Whiskybase ID: WB99796
Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Bruichladdich
Bottler: Malts of Scotland (MoS)
Vintage: 2002
Bottled: 2017
Calculated age: 15 years old
Casktype: Red Wine Cask
Casknumber: MoS 17017
Number of bottles: 347
Strength: 56.3 % Vol.
Size: 50 ml 700 ml
Added on: 19 Aug 2017 9:22 am by Jour.Ray

Average value

€ 179.23

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Whisky Reviews for Port Charlotte 2002 MoS

19 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 87.77 points

Mannix65 scored this whisky 87 points
01 Oct 2017 11:41 am
Spicy cheese and resin stand undiluted in the glass, with the addition of water the aroma quickly changes into caramel and toffee. A long-hung Pata Negra ham exudes its fleshy sweetness, behind it is an open can of freshly ground cocoa powder.
The taste is complemented by red fruits. The long finish is dry and contains a lot of oak.

Although I'm not a PC fan, I find him to be a very pleasant contemporary, because he doesn't show the sour cucumber barrel character of the PC, which otherwise disturbs me. Nice.
However, the price is pretty high.

Nose

86 86

Taste

88 88

Finish

87 87
Whiskydudes scored this whisky 87 points
09 Sep 2017 10:13 am
Well, a Red Wine cask (finished??) 2002 Port Charlotte. Must say, I've doubted some time before buying this rather expensive bottle, but 5 people rating average 92 pulled me over. There's a song by Jim Diamond; I Should Have Known Better, and that's exactly what this Port Charlotte is all about. Makes me wonder about rating whisky's once again. Is it because the 92 raters never had a real 92p dram? By no means does this come even close to the pretty brilliant Blackadder 2001 Port Charlotte. Is it bad? No, it's not, but definitely not worth € 180, it would have been a ok deal for € 90. Why?? Well, 1st of all it lacks the typical Port Charlotte 'power' and peaty, oilyness that PC fans love that much. It is a rather 'thin' dram, not by ABV, but it simply lacks depth, pretty one dimensional. Makes me wonder if this is matured in a bourbon barrel and finished in a rather average red wine cask. It does have some sourness that red wine matured whisky's sometimes have, which is't a bad thing, as long as it's not overwhelming. (this isn't overwhelming)

I won't bother to describe all flavours as there aren't too many.

Save you money for something worth € 180.
- Nose
  
  87 87
- Taste
  
  89 89
- Finish
  
  88 88
Lorion scored this whisky 63 points
10 Oct 2021 4:14 pm
That is clearly too ashy for me. The nose still knows how to please. The fun stops on the palate. 63 points.

Nose

Smoke, a full roar. Greasy, slightly ashy. There is some lemon zest. A touch of strawberry. Very dry, very cool.

Taste

Bitter ash, a subtle oak note is there. However, she is held in check by the smoke. The taste is dry.

Finish

Long and warm. A noticeable bitterness remains in the mouth.
HammerHead scored this whisky 88 points
13 Apr 2020 7:58 pm
To me this is a pretty good bottling (fits my profile), though the syrupy sweetness comes across as a bit artificial. Also like a lot of MoS bottlings of the last two years it's just too pricey, though at a 35-40% discount I would probably buy this (now where to find such an offer....?).

Nose

89 89

A mild smokiness considering this is a PC. Some sweet soy sauce, barbeque meats, a round and syrupy sweet red fruitiness, also quite nutty, just a tad salty and some curry like spices and cinnamon in the background. Not a bad dram at all, but too expensive indeed. Actually this reminds me most of the 2019 Rhinns bottling by MoS, which is a 'lightly' peated Laddie (actually displaying fatter smoke than this one) and was almost half the price (and half the age) of this expression.

Taste

88 88

Fairly simple but pleasing: again a profound syrupy sweet fruitiness, also sharper smoke notes than in the nose, honied liquorice, black pepper and some roasted nuts.

Finish

87 87

Quite long: first the syrupy fruits and sweet liquorice quickly dissipating into a prolongued peppery oak wood.
YosemiteSam scored this whisky 90 points
01 Jan 2021 4:00 pm
A powerful PC on wine barrel. The price is high, but then you have a nice 15-year-old dram!

Nose

88 88

Red fruits, honey, peat smoke, smoked bacon.

Taste

91 91

Peat smoke, smoked bacon, honey, spicy, oak.

Finish

90 90

A long smoky finish with red fruit and oak.
Ptrck.24.7 scored this whisky 87 points
24 Oct 2020 5:23 pm
Nose

87 87

Taste

86 86

Finish

87 87
Kantenmechaniker scored this whisky 87 points
10 Feb 2020 12:54 am
The red wine comes through properly, quite wild and with rough edges, I like it quite well, but it would not be a bottle that I would buy now

Nose

dry, salty smoke, red fruit, cherry, more acidic than sweet, cereals, quite fresh, malt, dark chocolate, if you warm it up a little, then damp tobacco is added, wineier, more intense, more pleasant, the acidity is almost in the direction Yogurt, mint
After the first sip, it really opens up, much more chocolaty and fruity, but the smoke is more reserved, including marzipan

Taste

starts massive, very vinous, creamy, totally oily, cherry, acid, caramel, laddie now comes through, clearly cinnamon, spicy smoke, vanilla, dark chocolate after the start, quite intense, not smoothly ironed

Finish

getting sweeter, berry, slightly effervescent, salt on the tip of the tongue, more chocolate, cinnamon smoke on the palate, pleasant, warming, creamy, long, with grapes
Indianerhäuptling scored this whisky 87 points
22 Nov 2019 10:34 pm
Nose

87 87

Taste

88 88

Finish

86 86
DerDennis! scored this whisky 88 points
07 Aug 2019 4:52 pm
blind tasting

I think that's good too, but nothing that I would have to buy immediately as Ardbeg and Laphi Fan. By the way, I exclude at this point times daring that this is Ardbeg or Laphi. Nor Lagavulin and Bowmore. But what then? Now would be idle to enumerate the rest of Islay ... most likely reminds me of the current PC 10. I do not know.
I would say that has not much more than 10 years and over 50% alcohol, and the barrel ... ex-bc. Since I can not find anything really fruity here, I exclude other barrel types or finishs.

Nose

88 88

sweet, spicy, clear smoke, smoked ham, pepper, salty, roasted almonds, honey, sea breeze, iodine, malt. Very nice flavors, but not very complex for me, which of course can be due to the smoke. I always have trouble deciphering a whisky. In any case, I put this here to Islay!

Taste

88 88

sweet, light spicy, pleasant campfire smoke, honey, tannins, salty, even the ham is there, herbs. Jo, I'm sure I landed on Islay. But do I know that? Somehow not...
Great taste. Actually, everything that the nose promised.

Finish

89 89

long, persistent sharpness, subtle honey sweetness, very pleasant notes of wood and smoke
Willum scored this whisky 88 points
04 May 2019 6:54 pm
Nose

88 88

Taste

89 89

Finish

88 88

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