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Octomore 16.1

Scotch Single Malt Islay
Age
5 years
ABV
59.3%
Introduced
2025
Flavour Fingerprint
Malt Light Fruit Citrus Floral Herbal Spice Sweet Dark Fruit Nutty Earth Maritime Smoke / Peat

The shape of Octomore 16.1

This bottle's own signature across the twelve-axis Spirit Map — not the distillery average, but this exact expression.

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Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.

Tasting

How it drinks

Sight
Pale gold, natural color
Nose
Sweet tropical fruit, peat smoke, tobacco-adjacent greenery, apricot, honey
Palate
Apricot and peach fruit, almond, honey, building peat smoke, creamy mouthfeel
Finish
Gravelly turned earth, milk chocolate, peat roaring to life as fruit sweetness fades

Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.

Maturation

The wood it came through

  • First-fill bourbon barrels

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