Octomore 08 in sight

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The next edition is called „Masterclass“ and comprises four different whiskys

Bruichladdich has published first information about the eight edition of its Octomore. Four whiskys will be released during the next months as Octomore 08 Masterclass. All Octomore 08 releases were produced from 100 % Scottish barley, all are heavily peated and for all there are detailed information how long they have been matured and what casks were used.

Octomore was named after a farm on Islay. Wearing the 8 in its name the 8th edition of the very smoky single malt was planned to be something special. Adam Hannett, Jim MacEwans successor as head histiller, therefor created four very different single malts to show the different characters and look back at the Octomore’s history. Bruichladdich gives an own interpretation of its quartet: The Octomore 8.1 is introduced as „Benchmark“, Octomore 8.2 stands for „Provocation“, for start into something new. Following is Octomore 8.3 as a „Challenge“. Octomore 8.4 is the „Gamechanger“, giving new impulses and defining new rules.

Detailed information about Octomore 8 Masterclass

 

Octomore Masterclass_08.1 

  • 42.000 bottles
  • 8 years old
  • 100 % Scottish Barley of harvest 2007, 167 ppm
  • distilled 2008
  • matured on Islay in American first fill oak barrels
  • 59.3 % ABV
  • To be released end of August/early September

 

Octomore Masterclass_08.2 

  • 36.000 bottles
  • 8 years old
  • 100 % Scottish Barley of harvest 2007, 167 ppm
  • distilled 2008
  • Matured on Islay for six years in one of these three cask types: French second fill Mourvedre and Sauterness cask and Austrian sweet wine cask. Then married and filled in Italian first fill Amarone casks for two more years.
  • 58.4 % ABV
  • To be released end of August/early September

 

Octomore Masterclass_08.3 

  • 18.000 bottles
  • 5 years old
  • 100 % Islay Barley of harvest 2010, 309 ppm
  • distilled 2011
  • Matured on Islay. First fill Bourbon casks made up 56%, the rest were wine casks from Pauillac, Ventoux, Rhone and Burgundy.
  • 61.2 % ABV
  • To be released end of October/early November

 

Octomore Masterclass_08.4

  • 12.000 bottles
  • 8 years old
  • 100 % Scottish Barley of harvest 2008, 170 ppm
  • distilled 2009
  • Matured on Islay for eight years in 20 % first fill virgin oak casks. The other 80% is whisky that was matured in first fill ex-Bourbon casks and then got a finish in second fill virgin oak casks. In those casks the Octomore 07.4 had laid before. They came from French Tonnellerie Radoux.
  • 58.7 % ABV
  • To be released in February 2018

 

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