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#LaddieMP5 – The Port Charlotte Drams

IN New Releases 14th October 2016/by Jane Carswell
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The Micro-Provenance digital tasting programme continues to evolve. For #LaddieMP5, head distiller Adam Hannett has selected three single casks of Port Charlotte whisky; for the first time we’ll be exploring three heavily peated drams in one of our live online tastings direct from the distillery.

To make Port Charlotte single malts, peat is burned to dry the grains during the malting process, and the barley absorbs some of the phenols produced to the level of 40ppm (parts per million).

The release will be entirely in sets of three 20cl ‘Wee Laddie’ bottles – at an extremely attractive price point. They have been bottled by our team in the Harvey Hall on Islay at cask strength. Available for pre-order.

The #LaddieMP5 whiskies that Adam has chosen not only share the same peating level, they are made from the same barley type – Optic, and were distilled within two weeks of one another, during November 2005, ten years ago. They are:

Cask #1999 – distilled in 2005 and matured full term in an American Bourbon barrel.   56.9% alc. vol.

Cask #0005 – distilled in 2005 and matured in Virgin Oak. 63.5% alc. vol.

Cask #0013 – distilled in 2005 and matured in Bourbon and Bordeaux. 59.9% alc. vol.

All three are stunning single malts that show some of the variety that it is possible to achieve through sensitive cask management, while showcasing our commitment to mature everything we make in our various warehouses on Islay, up to the very point it is bottled here.

Logistical Details

There will only be around 900 sets available, available to pre-order now. Please place your order ASAP to avoid disappointment.

The price will be £50.00 (fifty pounds) per set plus postage and packing (which varies with country).

We aim to despatch in November, well before Christmas. Exact delivery dates will be determined by where you are around the world. The live tasting broadcast will be held on Thursday 19th of January 2017 at 7pm UK time.

If you missed it on October 13th, you can watch #LaddieMP4 here.

Improved shipping arrangements mean that even more Laddiefans will have the opportunity to be involved – including friends from the majority of states across the USA, thanks to new American delivery arrangements.

We can also deliver to addresses in the province of Alberta, Canada.

Our photo shows the three bottles – we have labelled them using our own printer. The real labels will be similar but professionally produced.

The Micro-Provenance tastings are part of our ongoing exploration of individual cask evolution. Released as single cask bottlings they are available only from bruichladdich.com and to visitors to the Laddieshop on Islay.

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If you would like to be the first to hear about future Micro-Provenance tastings and news straight from the distillery please join our mailing list.

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WMD – THE STORY OF THE YELLOW SUBMARINE HAS BEEN FULL OF CHARACTER AND CHARACTERS RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING.

It started with our friend ‘Demolition Dave’ helping Duncan McGillivray and his gang to demolish the old Inverleven distillery – buying up all the old equipment for scrap and loading it onto barges on the Clyde. All so Duncan had some spares to keep Bruichladdich running in the days of No Money.

As this odd flotilla was being towed round the Mull of Kintyre and up to Islay, Laddie MD Mark Reynier received an email from the Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in the USA who had been monitoring distillery webcams on the grounds that our processes could have been ‘tweaked’ to produce the dreaded WMD. ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’.

Never one to allow the opportunity for a good story to pass him by, or to get his beloved distillery in the news, Reynier embellished the tale, which soon grew to involve spies and the CIA and visits by weapons inspectors. All of which made great headline-grabbing copy in the febrile media atmosphere then prevailing around WMD.

One of the stills from Inverleven was dutifully set up outside the old Victorian buildings, and became an iconic sight, with a pair of Duncan’s old wellie boots sticking out of the top to represent those weapons inspectors searching for dangerous chemicals deep in its copper bottomed interior.

A special bottling was commissioned (of course) and dubbed the ‘Whisky of Mass Distinction’ (geddit?) and much hilarity ensued. At least among the Laddies, the rest of the whisky industry having long since given up on the noisily irreverent rebels.

WMDII: A YELLOW SUBMARINE

Things were about to get even more eccentric because, shortly afterwards, Islay fisherman John Baker was heading home to Port Ellen when he spotted something awash in the sea off the bow of his boat. Being a resourceful man, he attached a rope to said object and towed it into the pier where Gordon Currie lifted it out of the water. It proved to be a very beautiful yellow submarine.

Very conveniently, the yellow vessel had ‘Ministry of Defence’ and a telephone number stencilled on it, which was of course immediately called. What happened next was to become the stuff of legend. He was connected to the Royal Navy. “I have found your yellow submarine” said John. “We haven’t lost a yellow submarine” said the Navy. Which was an odd response as the evidence to the contrary was overwhelming.

John and Gordon then loaded the submarine onto a lorry and took it to a secret location in Port Ellen (actually fellow fisherman Harold Hastie’s back garden). The local newspaper was called, then the nationals, and the following day the red-tops were full of pictures of the two friends astride the lethal-looking machine, carrying fishing rods, and asking: “Has anybody lost a yellow submarine?”

Hilarious… unless you were the Royal Navy – who did eventually admit to it being theirs. HMS Blyth, the minesweeper that lost it, eventually came to pick it up, slipping into the pier at dawn to winch it aboard. By that time, Bruichladdich had (of course) commissioned another bottling, WMD2: The Yellow Submarine, and a box of lovely liquid was graciously offered, and accepted by the captain as a goodwill gesture.

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