Port CharlottePL1 - Specialty Drinks - b. 2012 - 500ml

91 points on whiskyfun. com Pl1 (60%, Specialty Drinks, Elements of Islay, 2012) Five stars PL shouldn’t be Plutonium, its most probably Bruichladdich’s Port Charlotte. Colour: pale amber. Nose: perfect. Hey, why not stop now and declare that those were the shortest tasting notes ever? Seriously, this is brilliant. Strikingly simple yet complex at the same time (in the middle ground) . Leather tobacco barbecue cigars liquorice earth creosote carbolineum ham flints ink graphite motor oil bacon camphor… This baby doesn’t even need commas. Breathtaking ;
-) . With water: you would have thought it would have become quieter. Are you kidding? Right, maybe it got a notch more coastal… Mouth (neat) : massive, ultra-powerful and all on… black olives and tar! Please note that I love black olives ;
-) . It’s really heavy – no, heavier – but by pure miracle, it’s not really cloying. I’m impressed (and I didn’t even mention these notes of ultra-strong Demerara rum) . Wait, could this cask have matured under tropical climates? With water: wham! Extraordinarily massive, extremely concentrated and amazingly, well, heavy. Yes we’re afraid of nothing. Finish: very, very long, I guess that’s what some call a mouth coating whisky. Comments: this one almost killed me. Careful with this stuff! SGP: 578 - 91 points.