The “First Cut” from Port Charlotte - A Collectors Item?

Posted on June 4, 2007
Filed Under Event, For the collector, Islay, WhiskyBuzz |

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Today, Lady Caroline Mactaggart – wife of the Bruichladdich Chairman – cut the first turf of the new Port Charlotte Distillery Project in an emotional ceremony on 27th May 2007. The ceremony, witnessed by 500 locals and visitors, marked the official beginning of the two year project expected to open on the same day in 2009.

firstcut0837.jpgTo celebrate the moment, the distillery have made available a single cask of heavily peated Port Charlotte single malt - distilled at Bruichladdich in 2001. The “First Cut” valinch is reserved exclusively to visitors to the Bruichladdich Distillery on the Isle of Islay, and are filled in person by hand at a cost of £55.

The new distillery is to be built within existing warehouse buildings on the site of the original distillery that ceased production in 1929.

Jim McEwan, production director and Master Distiller, commented: “Through hard work and inspiration we have been able to bring back one distillery from the dead; now we have the honour and privilege to bring a second one back to life.”

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One Response to “The “First Cut” from Port Charlotte - A Collectors Item?”

  1. Armin on June 6th, 2007 9:31 pm

    I guess it will be a very exclusive collectors item, because you actually have to go to the distillery to fill it yourself. And once you’ve done that I don’t think you’ll ever sell it ;-)

    I’ve actually filled my own valinch bottle a few years ago. I’m not a collector so I do drink it, but only for very special occasions.

    Now I’m thinking about getting one of the First Cut Valinches when I’m on Islay again in two weeks.

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