61,7°
Distillery : Bruichladdich - Islay
1st Fill Ameican Whiskey Casks from Jim Beam, Heaven Hill, Buffalo Trace, Jack Daniel's
Original Bottling
Limited Edition
Single Malt
Bottled in 2020
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Peated around 194 ppm
The 3rd version of the 11th Octomore Batch was aged for 5 years in American whisky casks, before being poured into 18,000 different bottles. The barley used is Concerto, harvested in 2013 at Irene's Field, a small 28-acre field 2 miles from the distillery. Every stage in the production of this whisky took place on the Isle of Islay, with the possible exception of malting.
Let's Taste It :
Fresh bourbon, iodine, icing sugar, cereals, cut hay, biscuit filled with speculoos cream, stable heat, cattle grazing, sour apple, a few drops of lemon juice, dry earth. Grains of fine sand. With the addition of water, the iodine becomes more intense, a mineral edge emerges. Gypsum. And finally a hint of vanilla. Which comes through on the palate, with wheat and millet. Quite heavy spices, cumin, pepper. Nice finish, on charcoal, cola, a little cocoa, but still, I was expecting something more explosive. Gingerbread.
In Short,
I find this edition very similar to the 10.3, except that the 10.3 was more iodised and fresh, this one is more about hay or straw, and of course cereals. These are the two least interesting bottlings of the Octomore Series 3 in my opinion. In trying to produce something naked and simple that would enhance the distillate, they fail to recreate the perfect balance and elegance of the 06.3. It remains, of course, a very good whisky, but at a prohibitive price.
Score : 89
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Dave Matthews Band - Cortez The Killer
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