Octomore 13.2

Creamed sweet corn, salty brine water, dried apricots, fresh sticky rice on the nose. Rich creamy mouthfeel with golden plum, fresh rice water, Werther’s, and hints of grilled spam with some sautéed mushrooms a medium short finish

This is my only Octomore. I'm glad I bought it so that I have one on the shelf and I think it's very, very good. However, not sure it's worth the $263 I paid when I compare it to other bottles I've picked up around $100 like Laphroaig 10 CS, Laphroaig Cairdeas PX Sherry CS, Ardbeg Uigeadail, Ardbeg Corryvreckan, Highland Park CS, etc. Nose: Dark, dried, sherried fruits (like plums, raisins, and dates) with hot peat and barbecue smoke / smoked meat. Those 2 main notes (sherry and barbecue) are incredible. Flavor: At first it's a spicy and smokey honey sweetness. Then spice, oak, sherry, hot peat with black pepper, barbecue smoke, smoked meat. The peat and smoke here are all barbecue smoke and smoked meats. I don't get much medicinal, ash, campfire, cigarette, etc. Really nice notes for high peat / smoke. Body: Decent thickness, but certainly not oily or syrupy. My guess is that the young age of Octomore hurts it here. Just not enough time in the cask to get really great body. Finish: The sherry and barbecue notes dominate and linger forever.

I find the great use Oloroso to mature this liquid brings out your tylical smoke, pear, Oak and toffee flavours. This liquid is complex from the nose to the finish. Love smelling this dram all day long. I like one cube of ice to melt the burn a bit while searching for the flavours past the hest and smoke. Glad i did as i found a mixture of sweet strawberries amd spices. The .2 of any generation provides me with dessert ideas. In the palate i have Strawberry Cobbler before a smoky finish.

Wow. Its great. Not in the price though. Peat and sherry do play nice together and high proof burn in the end is almost perfect.

A perfect marriage of peat and sherry.