I agree with your assessment that covering Octomore distillate with heavy cask influence doesn’t make sense. Does that mean the x.1 are the preferred releases since they are usually only Ex-Bourbon?
It's complicated...the Lowlands did in large part speak Gaelic during the early Medieval period, before immigration by English speakers to the newly-founded Royal cities. So it depends on how far back one wants to go. Before creeping Anglicisation over the later Medieval period the Lowlands would have been a linguistic soup of Gaelic, English, Welsh and Norse - and this is reflected in the names of the border clans (my family's name is either Gaelic or Norse, depending on who you ask). At the end of the day, questions of identity like this are really a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story.
I’m a big fan of that 10.2 Octomore. One of my favs!
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I might be a hair more bearish on this bottling than you... but it is delicious!!
I agree with your assessment that covering Octomore distillate with heavy cask influence doesn’t make sense. Does that mean the x.1 are the preferred releases since they are usually only Ex-Bourbon?
I mean, keep in mind that I've only tasted out one Octomore flight before this... but yeah, the ex-bourbon one was my favorite. 😅
Interesting side by side comparison. Please more single malt reviews! :)
I've got one lined up, actually!
The Scotch-Irish were originally Scots speaking Lowlanders so no need to feel bad about your Gaelic pronunciation
It's complicated...the Lowlands did in large part speak Gaelic during the early Medieval period, before immigration by English speakers to the newly-founded Royal cities. So it depends on how far back one wants to go. Before creeping Anglicisation over the later Medieval period the Lowlands would have been a linguistic soup of Gaelic, English, Welsh and Norse - and this is reflected in the names of the border clans (my family's name is either Gaelic or Norse, depending on who you ask).
At the end of the day, questions of identity like this are really a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story.
Ha! Please don't use my heritage as an excuse for not being able to tease out language nuances.