Octomore 10.3 Bruichladdich Islay 70 cl 61.30° alcohol

Octomore 10.3 Bruichladdich Islay 70 cl 61.30° alcohol

 Bruichladdich distillery

This Octomore 10.3 edition of the 2019 series called Ochdamh-mòr proves to be interesting.

Distilled in 2013 from a 2012 harvest of Concerto barley grown on the distillery's farm, Octomore 10.3 takes advantage of the wet, wild conditions of the west coast to combine an exploration of Islay terroir with Octomore's characteristic stratospheric smoke.

For the first time, the 10.3 is matured for six years, but exclusively in Bourbon casks from Jim Beam, Heaven Hill, Buffalo Trace and Jack Daniel's.

These high quality casks have gently infused the spirit of this Octomore Single Malt in Warehouse 16, next to the 10.1 edition.

The components of these two editions are very similar. Yet the character of each remains unique. This difference is attributed to the place where the barley is harvested, which is different for these two versions.

Octomore 10.3 has 114 PPM*. It develops the marine freshness of Islay. The whisky is cask strength, unfiltered and colour free.

Only 24,000 bottles are available for this limited edition.

*PPM - parts per million - of phenolic compounds, measure the impact of oily peat smoke deposited on germinated barley as it dries. The longer the drying time, the higher the ppm value.

The Bruichladdich distillery produces unpeated whisky under its own name, very peated whisky under the Port Charlotte name and extremely peated whisky under the Port Charlotte name. Octomore.