Bruichladdich Octomore 9.1 Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml)

Volume: 700ml           ABV: 59.1%           Age: 5 Years Old           Country: Scotland           PPM:156

Each new Octomore generates a huge amount of anticipation and excitement. Connoisseurs of single malts from around the world have created a cult following for the wolds’s most heavily peated whisky series. Each release is a powerful illustration of the art of the Master Distiller. Each is necessarily unique, limited, finite, a celebration of nuance. It can never be reproduced.

Octomore 09.1 questions the fundamentals of superior single malt Scotch. Confident in its five year age statement, Bruichladdies Head Distiller demonstrates how a focus on raw ingredients and considered distillation can definitively debunk the myth that older is better. Distilled in 2012 from 100% Scottish barley, the 09.1 is matured full-term in top-tier ex-American whiskey casks.

OCTOMORE 09.1 διάλογος is:

Malted to 156PPM.
Distilled from 100% Scottish grown Concerto barley, harvested in 2011 and distilled in 2012.
Matured entirely on Islay for five years in ex-American whiskey casks (5yrs), full term in Jim Beam (51%), Jack Daniels (26%), Clermont (15%), Old Grand-Dad (8%).
Bottled unchill-filtered and colouring free at Bruichladdich Distillery, 59.1% alc. / vol.
Limited to 42,000 bottles.

Official Tasting Notes

Character: Refined, sleek, confident in its youth. Older than its years.

Colour: Pale gold.

Nose: Smoke and oak, intense sweetness from the cask, vanilla, cinder toffee. The smoke is thick, velvety and vegetal, peat and earthy.

Palate: Soft on the palate- no aggression, nutty, fudge, nougat, delicate coconut and rose petal floral.

Finish: Long peat finish, hints of treacle, warm sand/salt.