← Bruichladdich
Octomore 16.2
- Age
- 5 years
- ABV
- 58.1%
- Introduced
- 2025
Flavour Fingerprint
The shape of Octomore 16.2
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
- Gold with copper tints, natural color
- Nose
- Lemon curd, orange blossom honey, sharp citrus, oxidized wine notes
- Palate
- Wine-forward and sharp, oxidized fruit quality, apricot, citrus brightness, peat undercurrent
- Finish
- Explosive resurgence of oxidized wine, dried tea leaves, lingering citrus and smoke
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
- Ex-Oloroso sherry
- Bordeaux
- Madeira and Moscatel casks
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