Bruichladdich Octomore 8.3

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Limit 1 per customer!

We have acquired a final few bottles of this very limited whisky. It is Distilled in 2011 from Islay barley peated to 309.1ppm and filled into a mix of ex-Bourbon and French Wine casks. It was bottled after 5 years at 61.2%. Limit 1 per customer!

Distiller's Tasting Note

Character: This is the ultimate Islay Octomore. A thunderstorm of a dram. Close your eyes as you take the first sip and allow your senses to shut down as you focus on processing this fascinating dram.

Aroma: Toasted oak and muddy/peaty smoke, bandages. Maple syrup, fresh linen, sea shells. Evokes a memory of lying in the heather on the peat moss, the warm sun coaxing the scent from the wild flowers. The fruit is cherry, peach and mango, with creme brulee and toffee from the oak and barley.

Taste: Initially a surprise as the stellar level of peat is bitter and over-whelming. Another sip opens with up with cherry and peach and toasted sweet oak, dark chocolate, boot polish and seaweed. At this level the peat is like a thundercloud, darkening the atmosphere. You can feel it in your bones.

Finish: Complex, cre?me brulee with caramelised brown sugar slightly overdone. Dark plum, orange and kiwi sit well with the malted barley sweetness. The peat smoke is a tremendous presence offering roasted coffee, burnt heather and a place in your memory forever.

750 ml