Bruichladdich Octomore Whisky 13.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Octomore 13.1 is as youthful and dynamic as its super-heavily peated predecessors. Distilled patiently from the 2015 harvest of 100% Scottish Mainland barley, malted to a stratospheric 137.3PPM and matured in the highest quality American oak casks, this five-year-old spirit is truly remarkable. Acting as the backbone of the 13th Octomore series, the 13.1 offers a necessary comparison from which the other expressions alternate. Always balancing the strength of the Octomore spirit with a graceful, understated maturation in ex-American oak, this single malt is a testament to the trust our head distiller, Adam Hannett, has in the quality of his ingredients. Without more than patience and an understanding of how the flavours will evolve, this single malt perfectly personifies the courage of Octomore as a concept. After five aged years in first fill ex-American oak casks, Adam has offered a unique twist in this 13.1, having gathered and recasked the spirit in 2021 into yet more fresh, first fill ex-American oak casks. This final injection of flavour, taken from the interaction between the spirit and the oak offers additional flavours of dark toffee, coconut and vanilla.<\/p>\n
COLOUR<\/p>\n
Golden Hebridean Sands<\/p>\n
NOSE<\/p>\n
Initial impressions are of sweet nutty smoke, loaded with barley sugar and ripe fruit. Syrupy apricot and ripe pear along with malty vanilla notes of barley flour and cr\u00e8me brulee, honey and tablet. Delving deeper you will find from the American oak, coconut, almonds, and charred oak. The smoke of peat fires is delicate but powerful and along with the charred oak bring out boot polish and leather and an earthy tone to the aromatics. Wonderfully enticing.<\/p>\n
TASTE<\/p>\n
Sweet and viscous texture across the palate, the feeling is of densely smoked grain which comes through like smoked granola with honeyed fruit. A second sip brings the opportunity to decipher the complexity on the palate, smoked apricot jam and barley flour, peat embers and burnt heather, gooseberry citrus notes and sweet nutty Turkish delight. Oak chips, sugared almonds and chocolate-limes with spicy aniseed comes toward the finish. A drop of water intensifies the smoke and brings out the minerality of the whisky while calming the sweetness a touch.<\/p>\n
FINISH<\/p>\n
On the finish the sweetness fades and an earthy, mossy note remains on the palate wrapped in dry heathery peat smoke. Salty-citrus and floral notes of geranium and rose come through calmly to round off another won<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_cat":[135],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8523","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-scotch-whisky-single-malt","7":"brand-bruichladdich","8":"brand-octomore","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n