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Octomore 13 Series
Bruichladdich’s famously hyper-peaty whisky is back with a new series of bottles. This 13th edition of the series, which was launched in 2008, sticks to the fundamentals of the range: each whisky is matured for five years, the barley used is very heavily peated (to more than 130PPM on average) and bottled at near cask strength. The first in the series, 13.1, acts as the cornerstone of the range against which the others — each of which has a particular point of difference — can be compared.
Octomore 13.1
5 Year Old Scottish Barley Bourbon Cask
A youthful, dynamic Islay single malt, Octomore 13.1 was distilled in 2016 using 100% Scottish barley, malted to a mind-boggling 137.3ppm, and matured in first-fill American oak ex-bourbon barrels for five years. The palate offers notes of coconut, treacle toffee and vanilla, wrapped in layer upon layer of rich peat smoke.
Style
- Body
- Richness
- Smoke
- Sweetness
Character
Vanilla 
Coconut
Smoke
Toffee
Octomore 13.2
5 Year Old Scottish Barley Oloroso Cask
A vibrant, indulgent Islay single malt, Octomore 13.2 was distilled in 2016, using 100% Scottish barley that was peated to an eye-watering 137.3ppm, just like Octomore 13.1, and exclusively matured in oloroso sherry butts from Fernando de Castilla for five years. The palate offers rolling waves of thick peat smoke, with notes of candied orange peel, dried fruit, walnuts and vibrant orange zest that linger in the finish.
Style
- Body
- Richness
- Smoke
- Sweetness
Character
Orange 
Walnut- Smoke
Dried Fruit
Octomore 13.3
5 Year Old Islay Barley
A well-balanced, smoky Islay single malt, Octomore 13.3 was distilled in 2016 using 100% Islay barley, harvested in 2015 and peated to a whopping 129.3ppm, and matured in a combination of first-fill ex-American whiskey casks and second-fill European oak casks from Rivesaltes, France, and Ribero del Duero, Spain, for five years. The palate offers notes of vanilla, brown sugar, fresh limes and green apples, all wrapped up in gentle, dry peat smoke, sea salt and creosote notes that linger in the finish.
Style
- Body
- Richness
- Smoke
- Sweetness
Character
- Vanilla
Apple
Lime
Salt (powder)- Smoke
About Octomore
The wild-child sibling of already-considered-slightly-mad distillery Bruichladdich, Octomore started life in 2008 as a lab test to see how peaty you could make whisky. According to the Eights series, released in 2017, the answer is ‘very,’ to a value of 309.1ppm. For context, the most heavily-peated whiskies produced elsewhere on Islay rarely go higher than 55ppm.
Since reaching this milestone, Octomore has continued to create peated whisky in a class of its own, widely regarded as the smokiest single malt in the world, without compromising on character, flavour, quality, or provenance: much of the barley and water is sourced from nearby Octomore farm, from which the spirit takes its name.
Bruichladdich was the first Scotch whisky distillery to be certified as a B Corporation, which demonstrates its commitment to protecting the environment and the people which support the distillery.
