– Malted to 208.0 PPM
– Whiskey Type: Super heavily peated Islay single malt scotch whiskey
– Vintage: 10 aged years
– Distillation: Distilled from 100% Scottish grown Optic barley, harvested 2007 and distilled in 2008
– Maturation: Combination of 77 casks Combination of Virgin Oak & first and second fill ex-American whiskey casks from Jim Beam, Heaven Hill, Buffalo Trace and Jack Daniels
– Bottling: bottled non-chilled filtered and colouring free at Bruichladdich
– Strength: 54.3% abv alchohol
– Limited to 12,000 bottles
– Colour: Gold
– Nose: Wonderful Bouquet of Peat and fruit.
– Taste: Wonderful salty tang on the lips, leading into a viscous and honey like texture. Beautiful fruit notes and sweet oak make this a joy to hold on the palate, the peach, ripe pineapple and mango, dried apricot and peach notes are beautifully weighed against the smoke and oak, the extra age and combination of casks bring a level of maturity to this expression of Octomore that gives a new dimension to our understanding of this exceptional single malt
– Finish: Oak driven, coconut, tobacco, vanilla, then smoke. The time in the cask has calmed the smoke, both through the phenols lowering naturally over time and the influence of the oak becoming greater.
