Marko_I did not rate this whisky

Not because he had "only" 80.5 ppm, it was already a decent, heavily heavily peated whisky, but maybe more in the 50/60 € league. The double time in the barrel has taken him a lot, but nothing relevant given. And I do not mean peat-and-volt boobs, but really great, partly pictorial taste experiences that I had with some of the younger Octos, and even the more modest of them I found better than the 10s.
Maybe the optimum for Octomore + good barrels is easy at 5 years and it has a reason why you get the now (early 2019), in contrast to some other limited Islay NAS from the time for a whopping 300 ...