Octomore 10.1
/5 Year Old | 59.8% ABV
Distillery | Bruichladdich
107 ppm peat phenols. Distilled in 2013. Scottish barley. "FULL TERM MATURATION IN 1ST FILL AMERICAN WHISKEY CASKS FROM JIM BEAM, HEAVEN HILL, BUFFALO TRACE AND JACK DANIELS"
5 Year Old | 59.8% ABV
Distillery | Bruichladdich
107 ppm peat phenols. Distilled in 2013. Scottish barley. "FULL TERM MATURATION IN 1ST FILL AMERICAN WHISKEY CASKS FROM JIM BEAM, HEAVEN HILL, BUFFALO TRACE AND JACK DANIELS"
6 Year Old | 61.3% ABV
Distillery | Bruichladdich
114 ppm peat phenols. Distilled in 2013. Islay barley. "FULL TERM MATURATION IN 1ST FILL AMERICAN WHISKEY CASKS FROM JIM BEAM, HEAVEN HILL, BUFFALO TRACE AND JACK DANIELS". About the only difference from the 10.1 is the use of 100% Islay barley (and the age & ABV)
NAS | 46% ABV
Distillery | Ardbeg
Matured in Bourbon casks, finished in rum casks.
NAS | 51.8% ABV
Distillery | Laphroaig
Double matured in first fill ex-Bourbon casks then finished in Fino Sherry casks.
10 Year Old | 50% ABV
Distillery | Bruichladdich
First 'permanent' release of PC 10. 40 ppm peat phenols. Distilled 2007, bottled 2018. This differs from the PC 10 Second Limited Edition (besides the dates) because of different casks used, only American whiskey and French wine casks per data sheet. No sherry or tempranillo casks.
NAS | 46% ABV
Distillery | Ardbeg
Matured in wine casks that had been charred to produce grooves in the wood.
10 Year Old | 59.9% ABV
Distillery | Laphroaig
Bottled April 2016
23 Year Old | 46.3% ABV
Distillery | Ardbeg
Bottled 2017
NAS | 57.2% ABV
Distillery | Laphroaig
"This 2017 bottling is a Cask Strength Quarter Cask, which uses the art of aging in smaller casks to create more intense maturation through greater contact with the American Oak"
10 Year Old | 59.5% ABV
Distillery | Caol Ila
Cask strength. Distilled 12-2-2004, bottled 1-20-2015.
5 Year Old | 59.2% ABV
Distillery | Kilchoman
Cask strength. Distilled 5-29-2009, bottled 7-12-2014, Cask #394/2009, aged in a first fill Bourbon cask and finished in a Pedro Ximénez Sherry cask.
5 Year Old | 50% ABV
Distillery | Kilchoman
Distilled 2011, bottled 2016. "matured for over five years in Sauternes casks" Limited release of only 6,000 bottles.
41 Year Old | 40.1% ABV
Distillery | Bunnahabhain
Cask strength, but check the ABV! Almost didn't qualify for bottling! Distilled June 1969, bottled February 2011. Cask # 7251, bottle # 99 of 213 total.
NAS | 50% ABV
Distillery | Bowmore
Finished in Bordeaux Red Wine Casks
NAS | 51.5% ABV
Distillery | Bowmore
Finished in Ruby Port Pipes
25 Year Old | 51.7% ABV
Distillery | Lagavulin
"Natural Cask Strength" "Matured in sherry oak casks" Bottle # 1171 of 8000. The names and dates of every distillery manager are on the bottle.
16 Year Old | 43% ABV
Distillery | Lagavulin
Distilled 2000, bottled 2016. "Double matured in Pedro Ximinez cask wood"
5 Year Old | 61.2% ABV
Distillery | Bruichladdich
309 ppm peat phenols, making it the "most heavily-peated Octomore to date." Matured "in 56% first fill Bourbon casks, the remaining in ex-Paulliac, Ventoux, Rhone and Burgundy casks." "A thunderstorm of a dram." Great!!!
NAS | 46.6% ABV
Distillery | Ardbeg
Made from a vatting of "whiskies from several cask types - including; sweet Pedro Ximenez; spicy virgin charred oak; and intense ex-bourbon casks, amongst others." The Mull of Oa is the southern-most point of Islay.
21 Year Old | 46% ABV
Distillery | Ardbeg
Aged in ex-Bourbon casks. Allied Domecq owned Ardbeg in 1993 and 1994 when this was distilled and only operated the distillery a few weeks every year producing peated malt whisky primarily for blending use.
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