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Octomore 5 years 9.2

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(1)€115Scotland, Islay, Single Malt

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Octomore is made at Bruichladdich on Islay. The range exists to answer one question: how much peat can barley carry? Edition 9.2 was malted to 156 ppm phenols, a level most distillers would call reckless. The spirit spent four years in American oak, then a final year in French oak from Margaux. Those wine casks pull the smoke sideways into dark grape and orchard fruit. Just 12,000 bottles came out of the run. This is young whisky that behaves like something much older. The ash is there, but it never smothers the sweetness.

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Octomore

Octomore is a well-known distillery located on the island of Islay in Scotland. The distillery is owned by Bruichladdich, a renowned producer of single malt scotch whiskies. Octomore is known for its distinctive peated whiskies, which have a reputation for being some of the most heavily peated whiskies in the world. The name Octomore comes from the farm that the distillery is built on, which was originally called Octomore Farm. The distillery was established in 2002, and its first release was a 3-year-old whisky that was heavily peated, with a phenol content of 80 parts per million (ppm). Since then, Octomore has become known for its experimentation with different levels of peating, with some releases reaching over 300 ppm.

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About the Octomore 5 years 9.2

Octomore 5 years 9.2 is a super heavily peated single malt Scotch whisky from Islay. It carries 58.2% ABV and only five years of age, which sounds slight until you taste it. Bruichladdich distils Octomore in small batches and numbers every edition. This one belongs to the Dialogos release of 2018, and 12,000 bottles were filled. Peat, not time, does the heavy work here. The barley for this edition was malted to 156 ppm phenols. Very few distilleries anywhere push peat that far. Bruichladdich filled the new spirit into American oak and left it there for four years. For the final year, the whisky moved into French oak casks from Margaux in Bordeaux. Those red wine casks are the second half of the recipe. Wine and heavy peat rarely meet at this strength. The nose leads with fresh fruit and dark grape, then a wave of smoky ash rolls underneath. Oak sits behind both, dry and resinous. On the tongue the whisky turns sweet and cereal-rich. Vanilla from the American oak meets a meaty, savoury weight. The wood keeps the sugar in check. Fresh fruit and grape carry the finish, long and slightly tannic, with smoke fading last. Octomore 5 years 9.2 is the wine-finished member of the Dialogos trio. The other two releases in that set skipped the French oak entirely. Its stablemate 9.3 leaned on Islay-grown barley instead. That Margaux year is the difference here, softening the ash with jammy red fruit. Five years would leave most malts raw. Extreme peat and wine wood fill the space that age usually occupies.