← Bruichladdich
Octomore 12.2 (Sauternes Cask)
- Age
- 5 years
- ABV
- 57.3%
- Introduced
- 2021
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The shape of Octomore 12.2 (Sauternes Cask)
This bottle's own signature across the twelve-axis Spirit Map — not the distillery average, but this exact expression.
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Tasting
How it drinks
- Sight
- Warm gold with honeyed tones from Sauternes influence; medium-full body
- Nose
- Olive oil, saline, spearmint, sweet peat smoke, sultana grapes, cotton candy, melon, grilled apricots, stone fruits, vanilla ice cream. Meaty, earthy smoldering smoke with honey-glazed ham
- Palate
- Smoke, sweet BBQ, toffee, white raisins, dried fruit, earthy hay-like malt, baking spices, sweet tobacco, and herbal notes. Oily with ginger and mango chutney
- Finish
- Lingering and long with cinnamon roll, honey ginger. Peat, toffee, dried fruit, herbal spice linger beautifully
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
- Ex-bourbon American oak (3.5 years) then ex-Sauternes casks (18 months)
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