{"id":55550,"date":"2022-01-20T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=55550"},"modified":"2022-01-20T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T11:29:56","slug":"bruichladdich-launches-new-octomore-and-black-art-whiskies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/bruichladdich-launches-new-octomore-and-black-art-whiskies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruichladdich launches new Octomore and Black Art whiskies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruichladdich has announced the debut of its latest whisky expressions, Black Art 09.1 and the Octomore 12 series.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Bruichladdich Black Art 09.1 is the oldest of the nine whiskies bottled in the series to date &#8211; at 29 years old, the unpeated spirit was distilled before the closure of the Bruichladdich Distillery in 1994. It has been bottled at 44.1% ABV.<\/p>\n<p>As with previous editions in the Black Art series, Bruichladdich head distiller Adam Hannett has kept the cask types chosen for the bottling a secret.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/18737-540x335-1.jpg\"><img data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/18737-540x335-1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/18737-540x335-1-300x186.jpg 300w\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/18737-540x335-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55551 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\"    sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/18737-540x335-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/18737-540x335-1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/18737-540x335-1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hannett said: <em>&#8220;With this edition of Black Art, I took inspiration from the groundwork done in the early days of this series, where there was a restless pursuit to layer flavour.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This whisky would rest in some of the finest casks, sometimes for just a few weeks, adding a delicate layer of fruit before we moved the whisky on again &#8211; carefully waiting, watching and tasting, looking to chart new directions with each new cask we used until finally arriving at a point of perfection.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 12th series of the Octomore single malt, Bruichladdich&#8217;s ultra-peated spirit, pushes the peat level past 100ppm. As with previous Octomore series, the 12.1 acts as the &#8216;control&#8217; of the experimental range, and, as with previous Octomore .1 expressions overseen by Hannett, it was matured it in ex-American oak casks for five years.<\/p>\n<p>The 12.2 takes inspiration from the successful Octomore 4.2 (Comus), which was finished in ex-Sauternes wine casks. It spent three and a half years in ex-American oak before being recasked into Sauternes casks for 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the single-vintage 12.3 explores the terroir of the distillery&#8217;s Islay-grown grain, combined for the first time with sherry maturation. Of the spirit distilled, 75 per cent was filled into ex-American oak casks and 25 per cent into Pedro Xim\u00e9nez solera casks for a five-year maturation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruichladdich has announced the debut of its latest whisky expressions, Black Art 09.1 and the Octomore 12 series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":55552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2597,535,7088,1,477,7093,7099,7097],"tags":[10741,10744,10746,10742,10745,69,39,10743,216,103],"class_list":["post-55550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-selling-brands-in-duty-free","category-duty-free-retailers","category-fashion","category-latest-news","category-latest-promotions-in-duty-free","category-luxury","category-spirits","category-wines-spirits","tag-bruichladdich-black-art","tag-bruichladdich-distillery","tag-bruichladdich-duty-free","tag-bruichladdich-octomore","tag-bruichladdich-whisky","tag-duty-free","tag-dutyfree","tag-octomore-single-malt","tag-travel-retail","tag-whisky"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}