PORT CHARLOTTE 2007 CC:01 is the latest in the range of travel retail exclusive single malts from the house of Bruichladdich, which is being launched exclusively through selected TR outlets and will be showcased at next week’s IAADFS Duty Free Show of the Americas (Booth 113).

The new range will be available from this month at a recommended price of €90 ($103.50) with each expression said to be a tribute to ‘the exceptional, heavily peated spirit’ that was created in the village on the Scottish island of Islay, at the Loch Indaal distillery – until it closed in 1929.

The Bruichladdich company says that this new release is also the start of a fascinating new exploration of how this spirit is influenced by the cask in which it is matured.

The company said: “Breaking with tradition, PORT CHARLOTTE 2007 CC:01 has been kept full-term in finest French oak, slumbering on Islay for eight years in casks that previously held one of the great eaux de vie from the western Cognac region.

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“Here, the peat smoke combines with salt spray from the shores of Loch Indaal to vie with the toasted oak and lemon barley sugar flavours of the wood, ultimately releasing multi-layered and warming aromas of poached pears, cinnamon, ginger and yet more rich vanilla.

“This is yet another innovative new direction for the provocative Islay distillery. It’s young and enthusiastic workforce defies convention by distilling, maturing and bottling all its whiskies on the remote Scottish island.”

The company adds proudly that the 85-strong Bruichladdich team ‘steadfastly refuses’ to colour artificially any of their range of single malts, or subject them to chill-filtration – preferring instead to offer whiskies with an unusually high bottle strength. Bruichladdich adds that this latest release is a single vintage – ‘so inevitably limited’.