Tag: bruichladdich
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Port Charlotte comes of age
Port Charlotte is no stranger to this blog: there’s been both the visit to the distillery (Bruichladdich) in the Islay trip and the sampling of the old PC range that showcased the effect of increasing age, but still in the single digits. Today we take a sip of the childhood (10yo), teen years (15yo), and…
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P C 7 8 9
Bruichladdich distillery was revived in 2001 by Mark Reynier, Jim McEwan, and partners, and they quickly built a cult following, with many creatively marketed limited releases. Much of the Bruichladdich story is told in the documentary The Water of Life – A Whisky Film. Port Charlotte is the name of the heavily peated whisky produced…
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WC sniff & sip 2025 (Part 1/2)
No, no, I’m not taking a samples out of my toilet, but from my Whisky (advent) Calendar of 2024. Of the many calendars that one can find online, very few focus and small batch and single cask samples, but among those that do, none compares to the one from Brühler Whisky house. The 2023 totally…
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Ten more days of blind, belated Christmas
Let’s just dive straight back into the blind tasting from the Brühler Whisky House calendar 2023, that I started on in this post. We have here 10 more reviews, that I of course did not have all in one go , but I’ve collected by reviews from a time window of some weeks (usually I…
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The Islay trip, day 1 – Ferry and Bruichladdich
It was all planned. Islay youth hostel booked. Islay ferries booked. Distillery tours and tastings scheduled. Members of the Water of Life Society (the whisky club of Edinburgh Uni) had signed up for the trip and paid their deposits. Then in the matter of a few days, all the planning, the expectations, and the excitement…
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