Port Charlotte PC7 7 Year Old 61% abv

Nose: Coffee (as often in high-strength whiskies), pears and smoke With water: A big smokiness and big both farmy and coastal notes. Also quite some freshly ground black pepper, walnuts.

Mouth (neat): strong, very strong. Fructose, salt and apple peeling but that’s all. With water: the peat and the smokiness are very big now. The whole is much less fruity than PC5 and 6 but also better integrated, with also more salt and just hints of butter pears.

Finish: Very long, peaty, liquoricy and a tad gingery.

Comments: it is extremely clean and rather fat at the same time. It’s probably a little less exuberant than PC6 but also ‘sleeker’ in a certain way.