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Octomore 11.3 (Islay Barley)

Scotch Single Malt Islay
Age
5 years
ABV
54.3%
Introduced
2020
Flavour Fingerprint
Malt Light Fruit Citrus Floral Herbal Spice Sweet Dark Fruit Nutty Earth Maritime Smoke / Peat

The shape of Octomore 11.3 (Islay Barley)

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Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.

Tasting

How it drinks

Sight
Pale gold with warm straw tones; deceptively delicate for 194 ppm
Nose
Sweet dessert notes layered with smoke — vanilla, buttercream frosting, fresh pastry, waxy fruit, cinnamon, honey, peat, lemon peel. Maritime and ginger notes with cloves
Palate
Butterscotch, sugar cookies, buttery vanilla wafers, waxy fruit, cinnamon, honey, peat, lemon peel, minerality. Sinuous with sweet cereal, big spicy peat, and dark chocolate
Finish
Long finish with peat, decadent dessert sweetness, fruit and oil. Ashy peat and chocolate-covered ginger. Dry smoke, earthy with dry grass, burnt heather, toffee, and malt sugar in a complex long finish

Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.

Maturation

The wood it came through

  • First-fill American whiskey casks and European oak

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