← Bruichladdich
Octomore 13.3 (Islay Barley)
- Age
- 5 years
- ABV
- 61.1%
- Introduced
- 2022
Flavour Fingerprint
The shape of Octomore 13.3 (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
- Warm gold; medium-full body with Islay barley richness
- Nose
- Malt sugar and gentle peat smoke lead, with fresh green fruit, rose, geranium, apricot, and eucalyptus
- Palate
- Vanilla, brown sugar, fresh limes and green apples wrapped in gentle dry peat smoke, sea salt, and creosote. Sweet and coastal
- Finish
- Lingering finish with creosote notes, sea salt, and gentle barley sweetness. Earthy and maritime
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
- First-fill bourbon and second-fill European oak barrels
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