Port Charlotte 16 Years Old Oloroso Sherry Hogshead

Port Charlotte, 16 Years Old

Oloroso Sherry Hogshead

The 43rd release from Dramfool is a stunning 16 year old Port Charlotte matured in a first fill Oloroso Sherry Hogshead yielding 200 bottles at cask strength of 58.2%.

Tasting notes by Jim McEwan

Colour - Gorgeous Deep Ruby with a cherry red edge

Aromas - It opens on a beautiful, rare combination that can only be discovered from single cask bottling. This spirit is wonderful & rare, seldom found, as most bottlings are from many casks married together. The Sherry & smoke character from 16 years of maturing on the Island of Drams is incredible. I have seldom come across spirit like this, and I am super proud to meet one of my children after 16 years, what a wonderful experience!

The aromas and flavour are of plump red grapes, nutty oak, peat toasted barley. Then as it opens its Pandora’s box of handcrafted whisky from a Distillery that lay abandoned for over a decade. The tart mellow oak sweetness from the Spanish cask is in complete contrast to the peaty Hebridean overture, and it works. It’s wonderfully smooth and it seems to glide over the palate. Underneath the fruity harmonious flavours include dark chocolate, raisins, prunes, hints of walnuts and nutmeg.

Matured on the edge of the Atlantic, the Islay DNA flag flies proudly throughout this beautiful, handcrafted spirit.