9.2 Port Charlotte 2007 1st fill Vosne-Romanée Barrique, 16 years old

9.2 Port Charlotte 2007 1st fill Vosne-Romanée Barrique, 16 years old, 62.4%

This is the FINAL release of the Jim McEwan Signature Collection, and we have saved Jim’s favourite three casks until last.

Will there ever be a chance like this again? A whisky legend personally noses and hand selects the casks to create his own personal collection and tell his remarkable story in whisky. This (for us all) has been a once in a lifetime chance to buy bottles from casks that a whisky legend, from the start, earmarked for greatness.

As Jim said to us when this first came to pass ‘This is never to be repeated’, big words but TRUE!

Distilled on 26th October 2007 this whisky spent its whole 16-year life maturing in cask #5, maturation taking place in a 1st fill Vosne Romanee barrique.

The small commune of Vosne-Romanée is the Côte de Nuits’ region, producing the finest and most expensive Pinot Noir wines in the world, and boasting no fewer than eight Grand Cru vineyards. Noted for its extraordinary intensity of fruit which manages magically to combine power and finesse with extraordinary depth and richness.

Bottled in January 2024 as Release 9.2 of the Jim McEwan Signature Collection, like all bottlings within the collection, it was bottled un-chill filtered, with no added colour and at natural cask strength of 62.4% (Jim would have it no other way!), it yielded only 258 bottles.

70cl: £360 inc. VAT (£300 Rest of the World)

10cl: £68 inc. VAT (£56.67 Rest of the World)

Tasting notes from Jim McEwan MBE

Body - Strong & full of Islay character that works beautifully with the Vosne Romanee, a wonderful rare combination that is in its prime.

Aromas - The peat smoke, the fruit, the oak, the Atlantic Ocean, the traditional distillation style since 1881 and its created by real people who know exactly what the standard required is. The notes from the Barrique work wonderfully with the peat smoke creating a unique Islay Hebridean spirit matured full term a stones throw from the sea.

Palate - Its a gorgeous palate experience and at 62.4% the smoke & the sea work in harmony encapsulated in a halo of the Vosne Romanee Barrique. Its a unique taste experience. The malted barley flavours are to the fore throughout.