← Bruichladdich
Octomore 16.1
- Age
- 5 years
- ABV
- 59.3%
- Introduced
- 2025
Flavour Fingerprint
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.
Draw a shape like it in the Explorer →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
The Sunday Letter
A letter, every Sunday.
One distillery, one story, one thing worth knowing — drawn from the JourneyM8 archive of 600+ distilleries. No noise, no selling; just a good pour of whisky in your inbox each Sunday.