Octomore has defied received whisky wisdom since we first launched it, our third Islay single malt, in 2008. Matured for five years, always super-heavily peated and bottled close to cask strength, its surprising elegance led us to define it as “The Impossible Equation”. As an annual release, each new Octomore series aims to explore the very limits of single malt whisky; exploring barley provenance, terroir, varying peat levels and cask management in the pursuit of flavour. Head Distiller, Adam Hannett gets to push this liquid to its very limits every year and as a result sets himself his own challenge to create the unthinkable and imagine what many might think as unachievable.