Bruichladdich released PC5, Port Charlotte Evolution
Saturday, September 02 2006
The very succesful new owners of the Bruichladdich Distillery released the first single malt which they distilled themselves since the distillery fell in to their hands in 2000. The new whisky is called Port Charlotte Evolution, referring to the old Port Charlotte Distillery a few miles down the road. This is actually a milestone for Bruichladdich and a welcome addition to their already huge collection of whiskies. The new Port Charlotte Evolution, or PC5 evolution, is bottled at cask strength and the thousand cases available are already well overscribed. More info is available here and from the Bruichladdich Press Release
Quote from the Ileach Newspaper
Port Charlotte “PC5 Evolution” is the first single malt to be released that has been distilled by the new owners of Bruichladdich, following the 2001 renovation of the once closed distillery. Jim McEwan said: “This is paying homage, a doffing of the cap, to the old Port Charlotte distillery two miles down the road that closed owing to Prohibition in 1929.” Recently discovered records dated 1887 from the old distillery state: “peat only is used in drying the malt, fired in open chauffeurs”. The last known bottle (part of a privatelyowned collection held by Alexander Grant who owned Bruichladdich at the time) to be tasted was in 1963, to celebrate a new boiler installation. Port Charlotte man Ruraidh McLeod, then a distillery mashman, remembers what it was like. At 85 years old, he is the last man alive to have tasted the original: “I remember it well; we were called together to try it. It was a special event that called for a rare bottle. Sure enough it was very, very peaty; but it was as smooth as velvet.” Professor Walter Schoburt, the first author and whisky expert to taste the new whisky said: “An Islay malt by birth, and an Islay malt by character. First you get the peat, the wonderful, beloved aroma; then you feel that this is a whisky without edges.”
Port Charlotte “PC5 Evolution” is the first single malt to be released that has been distilled by the new owners of Bruichladdich, following the 2001 renovation of the once closed distillery. Jim McEwan said: “This is paying homage, a doffing of the cap, to the old Port Charlotte distillery two miles down the road that closed owing to Prohibition in 1929.” Recently discovered records dated 1887 from the old distillery state: “peat only is used in drying the malt, fired in open chauffeurs”. The last known bottle (part of a privatelyowned collection held by Alexander Grant who owned Bruichladdich at the time) to be tasted was in 1963, to celebrate a new boiler installation. Port Charlotte man Ruraidh McLeod, then a distillery mashman, remembers what it was like. At 85 years old, he is the last man alive to have tasted the original: “I remember it well; we were called together to try it. It was a special event that called for a rare bottle. Sure enough it was very, very peaty; but it was as smooth as velvet.” Professor Walter Schoburt, the first author and whisky expert to taste the new whisky said: “An Islay malt by birth, and an Islay malt by character. First you get the peat, the wonderful, beloved aroma; then you feel that this is a whisky without edges.”
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