← Bruichladdich
Octomore 16.3
- Age
- 5 years
- ABV
- 61.6%
- Introduced
- 2025
Flavour Fingerprint
The shape of Octomore 16.3
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
- Dark chocolate, orange marmalade, baking spice, holiday warmth, raisin, PX richness
- Palate
- Bold raisin character, lemony-buttery creaminess melded with peat, pastry dough by a fireplace
- Finish
- Coconut, sesame cakes, saline vein, long smoky-sweet finish with PX depth
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
Maturation
The wood it came through
- Ex-bourbon
- Sauternes and Pedro Ximenez casks
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