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Port Charlotte Islay Sponge Part IV 20 Year Old, Refill Hogshead Cask, 2003, Decadent Drinks, 56.5%
Port Charlotte

Port Charlotte Islay Sponge Part IV 20 Year Old, Refill Hogshead Cask, 2003, Decadent Drinks, 56.5%

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TypeSingle Malt Whisky
MRI
MRI 28
Average Score
Avg 92
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Description

This is the fourth installment in the Islay Sponge series from independent bottler Decadent Drinks, featuring a 20-year-old peated Port Charlotte single malt from Bruichladdich distillery. Distilled in 2003, the whisky matured full-term in a refill hogshead, allowing its pungent peat and funky barley characteristics to shine. Decadent Drinks, established in 2019 by Angus MacRaild, based its initial bottlings on the Whisky Sponge blog. This particular vintage of Port Charlotte is noted for its farmyard funk and dense Islay character, drawing comparisons to Brora from the 1970s.

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Region
Islay
Age
20 Years
Vintage
2003
Bottled
2023
ABV
56.5%
Volume
70cl
Distillery
Port Charlotte
Origin
Scotland
Cask type
Refill Hogshead
Bottling
Independent Bottling - Decadent Drinks
Peated
Peated
Single cask
Yes
Non-chill filtered
Yes
Cask origin
N.A
Cask no.
N.A
Batch
N.A
PPM
N.A
Barley
N.A
Fermentation
N.A
Master distiller (bottling)
N.A
Master distiller (distillation)
Jim McEwan
Limited edition
Yes
Bottle count
241
Has box
N.A
Closure
Cork
Presentation
N.A
Series highlights
Islay Sponge Part IV
Historical context
N.A
Special release
N.A
Allocation
N.A
Nose
Over-ripe orchard fruits, wafts of hay, pipe tobacco, smoked meat, hints of varnish, goat stables, horse dung, muddy notes, sweet soot, cigar smoke, salty kippers, wulong tea, old walnuts, dried hay, lemon, clementine, light menthol, and smoked herbs.
Palate
Oily and big, stewed fruits, classic Islay peat smoke, dried meat, lemongrass, deeply sooty, bonfire smoke, cough syrup, anchovies, lapsang tea, tobacco, walnuts, clementine, smoked lemons, toffee sweetness, floral edge, and a highly coastal combination of smoke and salt.
Finish
Smoking bonfires, orchard sweetness, sprinkling of sea salt, very long, dark, sooty, chocolate, tobacco, zingy lemon, and walnuts.
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