Tastes

Much richer and deeper than you'd expect at 258ppm. Everything that I love about Port Charlotte was exponentially magnified, revealing a magnificently textured, complex dram--honey, salt, chocolate malt, green barley, black tea, picked herring, and a slight spice. The smoke and ash brooding underneath the palate, carrying it into a long full-bodied finish of honey, salted caramel, oil, and smoke. This was a beautiful whisky, easily one of my favorites from the distillery and my favorite Octomore bottling so far.

The only Octomore I've drank so far with noticeable flaws. The nose was decent, but I got quite a bit of cardboard on the palate. I did this in a line up of 5 (6.3, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, & the 10 Year). This was easily a step down from the others.