SYMUE1 scored this whisky 93 points 
Port Charlotte 2002 MoS
- Whiskybase ID
- WB99796
- Category
- Single Malt
- Distillery
- 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
€ 179.36
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Whisky reviews for Port Charlotte 2002 MoS
19 users have left 20 reviews for this whisky. Average rating is 87.75 points.
SYMUE1 scored this whisky 93 points
Lorion scored this whisky 63 points
That is clearly too ashy for me. The nose still knows how to please. The fun stops on the palate. 63 points.-
Smoke, a full roar. Greasy, slightly ashy. There is some lemon zest. A touch of strawberry. Very dry, very cool.
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Bitter ash, a subtle oak note is there. However, she is held in check by the smoke. The taste is dry.
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Long and warm. A noticeable bitterness remains in the mouth.
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Elmer_Fudd scored this whisky 90 points
A powerful PC on wine barrel. The price is high, but then you have a nice 15-year-old dram!-
Red fruits, honey, peat smoke, smoked bacon.
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Peat smoke, smoked bacon, honey, spicy, oak.
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A long smoky finish with red fruit and oak.
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Ptrck.24.7 scored this whisky 87 points
HammerHead scored this whisky 88 points
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....?).-
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.
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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.
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Quite long: first the syrupy fruits and sweet liquorice quickly dissipating into a prolongued peppery oak wood.
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Kantenmechaniker scored this whisky 87 points
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-
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 -
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
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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
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Indianerhäuptling scored this whisky 87 points
DerDennis! scored this whisky 88 points
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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.-
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!
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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. -
long, persistent sharpness, subtle honey sweetness, very pleasant notes of wood and smoke
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Willum scored this whisky 88 points
stefsel111 scored this whisky 88 points
rpvdwel scored this whisky 87 points
JacobaEd scored this whisky 89 points
Arjo S scored this whisky 89 points
Very good Port Charlotte which doesn't need any water, but definitely not worth the € 180 it's been sold for!mr.p9 scored this whisky 88 points
Hvdree scored this whisky 87 points
MadScientist scored this whisky 89 points
LordBellamy scored this whisky 87 points
Nose: right at the beginning there is a versatile aroma: not too intense red fruits (strawberry) paired with smoky ashes, some citrus, gherkins, caramel, white pepper, if you warm it by hand, it is getting oily and the peat smoke goes Direction campfire, the alcohol is clearly noticeable and not perfectly integrated
Taste: the first onset in the mouth is not particularly intrusive, beautiful sweetness, red fruit, then the peat hits with all its might and laps around the mouth with a long-lasting peat smoke.
Finish: long, also here, of course, intense peat smoke aroma, to the Rotwin and behind the oak, which is clearly dry.
Water: The calls for the water, he screams, do wim but sometimes the favor - yes, with water he twas softer, much more caramel and the red wine is more intense, the oak tends towards pencil abrasion, The pepperiness he loses by the Not water.
Conclusion: Yes, I promised myself a lot, and maybe a bit too much, so I'm a little disappointed now. But not really, let's say, he failed because of my high expectations. Because in the end it is a great malt, plus a successful combination with the red wine barrel. The wine is not too intense either, so I'm guessing a finish or a refill keg. But somehow there's always something missing, so I could say: He's really good. And face the pretty proud price of 179 EUR is in my opinion also overpriced - 87 pointsMannix65 scored this whisky 87 points
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.MadScientist scored this whisky 89 points
Whiskydudes scored this whisky 87 points
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.
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