OCTOMORE家族

布魯萊迪在2014年艾雷節發行一款特別不平凡的Octomore“Discovery”。早在2007年，吉姆·麥​​克尤恩的靈感來自於偉大的蘇格蘭人旅客馬丁馬丁，從超級重peated麥芽的四次蒸餾，注定要成為Octomore的精神。其結果絕對是獨一無二的。在Oloroso雪莉酒桶熟成七年，和以前的不一樣。

在費斯大區，2014年5月25日週日下午1點，發行Octomore Discovery限量版1,695瓶，專門發售給到布魯萊迪酒廠的遊客。
 

OCTOMORE 10  的 10 CL TASTING SAMPLES

OCTOMORE Feis Ila Discovery  的 10 CL TASTING SAMPLES
 

Where did the idea for Octomore whisky originate?

It was always our original intention to distil three different versions of Bruichladdich.

With Bruichladdich whisky being traditionally unpeated, we set out to distil two other whiskies at differing levels of peatiness.  Port Charlotte was the first of these, heavily peated at 40 ppm, making it one of the most peaty single malts from Islay.

This begged the question, posed late one evening at the Port Charlotte pub: if at 40 ppm the elegance, finesse and purity of Bruichladdich spirit still shines through, what would happen if we upped the peat even further? In fact, just how far could we go?

The challenge of an über-peated single malt was duly issued to our maltsters, Bairds of Inverness. Using Saladin boxes, where barley is malted with minimal movement, peat smoke from kiln fire made up of solid peats was ducted through the box. After several days of peat smoke, the phenols rising off the Richter scale, the malted barley was ready.

The ‘ppm’ (parts per million of phenols) refers to the peatiness of the barley from which the spirit was distilled and not the mature, bottled whisky; with distillation and time the ppm falls.

Controlling the peatiness is not a precise art. The first year’s batch was 80.5 ppm; subsequent years have produced levels as high as an eye-watering 360 ppm.

The barley for Octomore treatment is now grown appropriately enough on Octomore farm, just a few miles from Bruichladdich Distillery here on Islay.

Some might call such a high level of peat excessive; we call it Octomore.

The Octomore Story

In a wood in Bridgend, tucked away off the road, there is a damp, stone monument encrusted in a vibrant orange lichen there is a grave. Scrape away the slab’s grass covering, and there is the engraved name: George Montgomery, Distiller at Octomore.

Octomore farm sits on a commanding position on a hill over looking the village of Port Charlotte near Bruichladdich. There are dramatic views over the whole island, away to the Northern Irish coast twenty-five miles away, around to the Paps of Jura. A peaceful place with a tragic story.

The name originates around 1300, from the division of the medieval davoch - or common ground - into eight workable, self- sustaining units. In this case the ‘Large Eighth’. The large eight was divided in to three tenancies lower, middle and upper.

It is here that Dirty Dotty’s Well, James Brown's invigorating spring is found, producing the crystal clear water emerging from 1.8 billion year old Gneiss rock that we use at bottling to reduce from cask strength to 46%. Once there was also a distillery here.

John Montgomery, took over the middle Octomore tenancy around 1815. He had three sons – George, William, and Alexander. The younger brothers, William and Alexander, farmed their father’s previous farm tenancy near by.

In 1816 John’s eldest son, George, built a small distillery on the farm along with John Macvorran, a fifteen year old lad (probably George’s brother-in-law) from the neighbouring lower Octomore tenancy, whose father had just died. John Montgomery, his son George and young John MacVorran became co-partners in Octomore Distillery. It was to be a short-lived, tragic story of sibling rivalry, stubbornness, hunger and death.

The distillery was a small scale set up, probably only a single still operation, which had a capacity of a mere 270 litres, not much more than a hogshead. It appears to have been scaled to use the two Octomore tenancies - fifty acres - of Octomore barley. In it’s second year, 1817- 1818, it produced just 4,491 litres or eighteen hogsheads of whisky.

A decade later, by 1826-1827, the distillery produced about 65 hogsheads which was clearly not going to make them rich. About then, 1830 or so, John Montgomery died and it all started to go pair-shaped – big time.

The distillery business was now in George's name. Then three years later in 1833, he too dropped dead at the age of only 44. His 12 year old son Donald was his heir – but heir of what?

George’s younger brother, William, claimed the tenancy of his father’s farm, and so the distillery. But the distilling business was in George’s name, and now belonged to the adolescent Donald. Or did it? William and Alexander believed their father had a third share and they were entitled to it so muscled their way in.

By 1839 matters had got out of hand. There was ‘a misunderstanding’ between William, Alexander, Donald and John MacVorran about the running of the business as well as ‘several other transactions relating to our accounts’. Finally, on 28th December 1839, it was agreed that arbitration should be sought.

Consequently, eight months later on 7th August 1840, in order to ‘effect a complete settlement of all matters of a doubtful nature amongst us and to prevent litigation’, the three Montgomeries – the two brothers and their young cousin - again sought arbitration, but this time over John’s will.

Donald clearly had the right to his father George’s share of the business. William and Alexander claimed their father John’s third share. But In the days of prima genitor, had John already given it to George, who after all had put in all the hard work?

We don’t know the result of this adjudication. Clearly no satisfactory resolution was reached. A stalemate – ‘it may be your distilling business, but it’s my land’ – Intransigence, envy, bloody mindedness meant the distillery shut down and whisky production ceased in the autumn of 1840, just twenty four years after started.

Within a few months, twenty year old Donald married an older Octomore girl, Ann Campbell, and with his young siblings in tow he seems to have taken the money and run, emigrating to Simcoe County, Ontario. There was nothing left for him at Octomore.

At this time there were twenty-seven Montgomeries living at Octomore out of 175 souls in 30 houses. Small pox had been contained, and together with the mild climate and the relative land fertility (compared to other Hebridean islands) the Island’s population had exploded from 5,000 in 1800 to 15,600 in 1841. Clearly this was unsustainable, the people were living on a knife edge. For the remaining Montgomerys things were about to go from bad to worse.

Farming had always been tough in the Hebrides. With such rapid population growth and the lack of good quality farming land, a monoculture soon developed based on the potato. It yielded the highest amount of sustenance per square yard in the impoverished, sandy soils. And then the potato blight struck in 1846, lasting a decade.

Alexander, with nothing to keep him, emigrated to Ontario in 1848. In 1849, the island’s benevolent landlord Sir Walter Campbell, with greatly reduced farm rental income, went bankrupt. Islay was in administration for four years as no buyer could be found. Eventually Charles Morisson bought the island at a reduced price.

Morisson was keen to regain control of Octomore, now derelict and in ‘great disrepair’ fourteen years after the distillery had closed. Octomore was now home to a ‘mere’ 51 people in 12 houses, a third of population from just a decade earlier. William, now 61, a widower, was ‘starving’. With his three sons and a daughter, they were the only Montgomeries left out of twenty- seven. William refused to relinquish the tenancy claiming he was owed money from Donald and compensation for the distillery. John MacVorran, now a forty year old ‘labourer’, supported the claim. But there was to be one final twist to the tale.

Upon examining the Octomore lease it became clear that after all this time, bitterness and sorrow, the distillery had been illegally built. No permission was sought or given, and according to the terms of the tenancy any buildings erected belonged the landlord any way. There had never been anything to bequeath, nothing to inherit.

Despite this, in 1854 Morrison agreed to a pay off, the sum the equivalent of £9,782 in today’s money, just if William would agree to relinquish the tenancy. He promptly emigrated to Ontario. The Montgomeries had left Islay for good.

Today there are just 5 souls in one house at Octomore. You can even stay in the old distillery buildings where this sad story played out: www.octomore.co.uk. Octomore the whisky, was no more.

We had the idea of distilling the most heavily peated whisky the world has ever seen in 2002. It started out as a philosophical discussion: would the spirit from Bruichladdich’s tall-necked stills be as elegant, fruity and floral if we used an exceptionally heavy peated barley – like the most heavily peated ever? Now we know.

Bruichladdich’s tall, narrow-necked stills produced a remarkably unique spirit: those stills, run so slowly the condensers weren’t even needed, have produced an exceptional Islay hybrid: extraordinarily pure peat aroma on top of an incredibly refined spirit, devoid of the medicinal flavours associated with heavily peated whiskies. A totally new Islay experience.

Now we know the full story of Octomore. We know the distillery was built to use the barley grown on Octomore farm, both John Montgomery’s middle tenancy and the teenager John Macvorran’s lower tenancy. In these fields west of the Port Charlotte to Bruichladdich road, barley was grown for distillation again for the first time since 1839.

For the first time in 169 years, Octomore whisky is once again made from Octomore barley.

OCTOMORE  《IB》  EPIONE 和 MELEAGER 的 10 CL TASTING SAMPLES

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Feis Ile 2014 - Octomore Discovery

Jim McEwan簽名
 

上述瓶身為 : 首席調酒師 Jim McEwan 和 前任總經理 Duncan McGillivray (2014/6/27退休) 二人的聯合簽名

OCTOMORE FUTURES I & II  的 10 CL TASTING SAMPLES

OCTOMORE  10 CL TASTING SAMPLES  大集合

(1)OCTOMORE 1.1
(2)OCTOMORE 2.1
(3)OCTOMORE 2.2
(4)OCTOMORE 3.1
(5)OCTOMORE 4.1
(6)OCTOMORE 4.2
(7)OCTOMORE 10
(8)OCTOMORE 5.1
(9)OCTOMORE 6.1
(10)OCTOMORE 6.2
(11)OCTOMORE DISCOVERY  FEIS  ILE  2014 
(12)OCTOMORE FUTURES  I
(13)OCTOMORE FUTURES  II
(14)OCTOMORE EPIONE
(15)OCTOMORE MELEAGER

(1)OCTOMORE EPIONE
(2)OCTOMORE MELEAGER
 

Announced special bottlings of Octomore: Meleager and Epione
Posted on 21 April 2014 by Petra
The Bruichladdich Octomore is something very special: As most peated whiskey in the world this single malt is comparable in taste to any other. Now the chamber Cherry GmbH has announced two special bottlings of Octomore who are still a little bit special: Meleager and Epione, the hot releases that are limited in each case to 960 bottles.
It involves the whiskey from two barrels exclusive director who still has Mark Reynier from his time as co-owner of Bruichladdich. The basic material for this whiskey supplied by the Octomore barley farm near Port Charlotte on the Hebridean island of Islay; Barley, so that grew very close to the Bruichladdich Distillery.
Meleager was so well stored for six years in American oak ex-bourbon casks and in French oak barrels of Château d'Yquem. So white wine finish is the secret of this single malts, which has a Torfnote 161.5 ppm and is bottled at 46% alcohol by volume.
Also, six years old, is the Octomore Epione , matured only in French oak, having previously taken for one of the fortified wine from Doux Naturel VDN, on the other hand also Château d'Yquem wines which
were first occupier of the barrels. Also 46% vol has to offer Epione, but brings with 162.5 ppm a touch more smoke into the glass.
Because of the strong limitation and the exclusivity of these single malts, the two bottlings will be sure to sell out quickly. Who can get any of these special treasures that may be yes with a "normal" Octomore comfort.
The names of Meleager and Epione way, are taken from Greek mythology. Why Scottish single malt whiskey, matured in French wine casks, wearing a Greek name, currently eludes our knowledge and will not be revealed in the press release from the Chamber cherry ....
 

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OCTOMORE  《IB》  EPIONE 和 MELEAGER 的 10 CL TASTING SAMPLES
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OCTOMORE 6.2
在桃園機場鋪貨了!!!

年初國外買的二瓶（含運費），實在高太多了。
     

X4+2014 費斯大區

還是OCTOMORE瓶比較好看，現在連X4也用OCTOMORE瓶。

     

It involves the whiskey from two barrels exclusive director who still has Mark Reynier from his time as co-owner of Bruichladdich.

     

OCTOMORE 1.1
750ML & 700ML

不一樣容量的
OCTOMORE 2.1
750ML