Octomore 2008 Ten Years Diàlogos Third Limited Release

 

 

 

56,8°

Distillery : Bruichladdich - Islay

1st Fill Port Pipes, 1st Fill Cognac and 1st Fill Bourbon Casks, Finish in Virgin Oak

Original Bottling 

Limited Edition 

Single Malt 

Bottled in 2018

Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength

Peated around 167 ppm

12,000 copies of this 3rd edition of Octomore 10 Years went on sale in early 2019.. 

 

Let's Taste It : 

Superb balance between the American casks, which offer light white fruits, mirabelle plums, greengages, and vanilla that's not at all sweet, and the port casks, with their red fruits, wineiness, pomegranate, blackcurrant, tannins, heather earth, undergrowth, humus, lemon zest, smoke, exotic fruits, lychees, iodine, foam, sea salt, damp sand. I spent half an hour smelling the glass. Very complex palate, torn between peat and a fruity, forest intensity. Deep, interminable finish, black earth, charcoal, muscat grapes. I could still taste it twenty minutes later.

 

In Short, 

Exquisite. The most complex nose I've ever smelt, and the rest is equal to it. A bottle to get hold of as soon as possible if you can afford it.

Score : 92

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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