Bruichladdich Octomore 4.1/167PPM

Holy Monkeyyyy

Reviewed by
Connosr member:

GT2

Date:

11th Sep 2012

Reviewer rating:

About this score:

Nose: 25
Taste: 24
Finish: 24
Balance: 24

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Tasting Notes by GT2

Matte black bottle sampled at Jack Rose in DC. 62.5% and 167PPM bottling. The fourth iteration in the Octomore series.

App- Pours a clear straw, very clear and light like chardonnay. Very sharp, delicate, needle like tears/legs on the snifter.

Nose- Very insane with intense as hell forest floor, spruce tips, lemon verbana, raw animal, body odor, native human, campfire, roasted game. A 'primal' nose if there ever was one. Opening up it, the nose adds peppercorn encrusted sweet bacon and rendered bacon fat, even moving to sweet to maple pancake breakfast.

Taste- Super heating at 62.5% with sharp white pepper, sage leaf, cracked pepper, melted animal fat, campfire heat.

Palate- Bitter, powerful, raw, one of the most primal things I have experienced. Balanced still given the abv. One to savor very slowly.

Whisky details

Distillery/Brand:

Bruichladdich

Bottling:

Octomore 4.1/167PPM

ABV:

62.5%

Colour:

Fino Sherry

Bruichladdich Octomore 4.1/167PPM Holy Monkeyyyy Reviewed on 2012-09-11T20:17:00 scoring 97/100 by GT2

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Comments

Wills wrote:

Haha great review, pure fun!

11 September 2012 21:37

GT2 wrote:

I forgot to mention in the review that the actual dude whose Single Malt Scotch collection is now property (for the most part) of Jack Rose saw my fiance and I looking at the bottle list and asked what I liked. I said Port Charlotte PC8 was my favorite Scotch so far and he said go for the Octomore 4. Go big or go home. Cool guy. I wish he was my grandfather.

11 September 2012 22:17