← Bruichladdich
Octomore 12.3 (Islay Barley)
- Age
- 5 years
- ABV
- 62.1%
- Introduced
- 2021
Flavour Fingerprint
The shape of Octomore 12.3 (Islay Barley)
This bottle's own signature across the twelve-axis Spirit Map — not the distillery average, but this exact expression.
Draw a shape like it in the Explorer →Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
- Sight
- Deep gold with amber sherry-cask influence; bold and viscous
- Nose
- Charred peanuts, coffee beans, stout beer, dates, tangerine, pineapple, all wreathed in dry smoke. Sooty peat smoke, vanilla, caramel, and maritime salinity
- Palate
- Grape jelly, espresso beans, sticky dates, lemony sourness, roasted malt, dark toast, red-skinned peanuts into robust smoke. Thick honey, caramel, milk chocolate raisins, juicy tangerines, briny
- Finish
- Intense, complex finish with charcoal, smoke, honey, and sherry influence. PX sweetness lingers with peat and dark chocolate
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
- First-fill American whiskey casks and first-fill Pedro Ximenez sherry butts
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