Octomore 14.2 57.7%ABV 30ml Pure fruit salad on the

Pure fruit salad on the palate

rich caramel

Bill Lumsden

long and elegant

There was a craft beer boom and bust in the 1990's in Japan (there is a whisky boom at the moment and their will likely be a bust too - based on this first bottle Kiuchi will come out on top wth whisky too)

Octomore 14.2 57.7%ABV 30ml Pure fruit salad on theSPECIFICATIONS BARLEY PROVENANCE: 100% Scottish grown Concerto barley MALTING: Super Heavily Peated DISTILLATION: Distilled in 2017 from the 2016 harvest AGE: 5 Aged Years MATURATION PROFILE: 4 years in the Oloroso (40%), Amarone 1st fill (16%) & Amarone 2nd fill (44%), followed by 1 year in Pauillac wine casks PHENOL LEVEL: 128. 9 parts per million (PPM) NOSE Leather, prunes, red currants and malted barley come to the fore, followed by toasted oak