Octomore 10 Year Fourth Edition (2020 Release)

2020 has been complete crap, but the whisky world must go on. And on that note, if anything can save us, it's gotta be peat. Nose - The bourbon dominance here stands out. Sweet sweet sweet malt, overwhelmingly vanilla dominate. From there I get that classic octomore barely, and then clay putty and dirt from the peat. This isn't complex at all, it's very simple. It's however really nice. As it opens up I get some kind of baked bread...not a fancy note by any way but that's what it is. Perhaps not fully cooked and you might even have a sugar cookie with frosting on it. It's all vanilla and mellow peat. Taste - The flavor follows the nose with just a dominate sweetness here. There is more bitterness from the oak, something I never see with octomore, There's alcohol as well, very sparky but not off putting. The flavor is again that vanilla bomb, but it's moving to these minty and oaky notes, nice charcoal, and maybe even a smoked mash mellow. I gotta say, this is my new favorite octomore. It's killing it. It isn't mind blowingly complex, but it's well well worth the price. I'm going 3.75 here. It's awesome.

Rich and buttery smooth, so smooth that if you tell me it is a 25 years old whiskey, I wouldn’t say you’re lying. Honestly not as peaty as I expected, and the taste is sweet and savory, reminds me of smoked brisket. The character of the peat is sort of like a combination of laphroaig and ardbeg. Overall a super enjoyable whiskey!

Savory notes and vanilla, nice well-rounded oak character. The peat, brine, vanilla, and waxy iodine play up and hang around on the palate. There’s some cinnamon apple as well. Indulgent and excellent.

Peatier on the nose than Octomore 11. Smoother than PC 10 but higher ppm. Like 11.1 more Bruichladdich Tasting

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