OCTOMORE MASTERCLASS 8.1 8YO 59.3% - THREE MONTHS SITTING SAMPLE BOTTLES - rOASTED BBQ MEAT, peppery, sweet woodchips, apple woodchips 3.25 - oaky, apple, malty, and dense creamy and dark choco, fire hot pepper given the high ABV, 3 - sustained light to mid smoke, oaky 3 3.25 Nosing. Very sweet aroma, honey and oats, and oak in the first whiff. For the second whiff, you get hit more with a very slight burn from the intensity of high alcohol and burnt rubber tires. Flavour. High ABV but it doesn’t have the peppery burn that you get like from all other relatively young whisky. What you find is a soothing warmness that spreads across your mouth - a sensation I’ve not felt with other whisky before. Once the first wave of warmness boils over, you get strong Saltiness, briny and iodine, and a smooth creamy texture Finish - Smokey, definitely but calling this peatiness will not do this justice. Give it 10 seconds and you are licking the bottom of a bbq beef shank cauldron. Don’t feel so? Force a belch - and you will be surprise at the aroma that erupts from within you. Weird - but true