010: Ophelia - Staoisha 2013, 8 Years, 56.9%

010: Ophelia - Staoisha 2013, 8 Years, 56.9%

SGD $215.00 SGD $235.00
010: Ophelia - Staoisha 2013, 8 Years, 56.9%

010: Ophelia - Staoisha 2013, 8 Years, 56.9%

SGD $215.00 SGD $235.00

"Ophelia" is a youthful 8-year-old Staoisha, a heavily peated expression produced at Bunnahabhain. Distilled in 2013, it offers a raw and powerful glimpse into Islay's smoky heart at a sharp 56.9% ABV.

 

Details

One of 252 bottles


CHARACTER

Raw | Powerful | Medicinal | Ashy | Coastal

 

TASTING NOTES

Nose: Pungent and direct, featuring heavy chimney smoke, iodine, and wet seaweed. A slight sweetness of malted barley and lime juice peeks through the heavy ashy intensity.

Palate: The mouthfeel is sharp and structured, delivering an explosion of peat embers and black pepper. It moves into more industrial notes of diesel and tar, balanced by a creamy vanilla core.

Finish: Medium to long, finishing with a dry, ashy heat and a touch of sea brine. It leaves a stark, uncompromising smoky trail on the palate that recalls the Islay shore.

Styled With
010: Ophelia - Staoisha 2013, 8 Years, 56.9%
  • 010: Ophelia - Staoisha 2013, 8 Years, 56.9%
  • 010: Ophelia - Staoisha 2013, 8 Years, 56.9%
  • 010: Ophelia - Staoisha 2013, 8 Years, 56.9%
  • 010: Ophelia - Staoisha 2013, 8 Years, 56.9%
  • 010: Ophelia - Staoisha 2013, 8 Years, 56.9%
  • 010: Ophelia - Staoisha 2013, 8 Years, 56.9%

Label Artwork

Artist

Ian Leong
Artwork

Watercolours on Paper
Details

This artwork reimagines Shakespeare's Ophelia—the tragic figure from Hamlet who floats serenely down the river, surrounded by drifting flowers in her final, poignant moment. In John Everett Millais' famous 1850s Pre-Raphaelite painting, Ophelia is encircled by a rich array of European wildflowers (violets, forget-me-nots, poppies, nettles, daisies, and more), each carrying symbolic weight of innocence, remembrance, and sorrow.

In this contemporary reinterpretation, we have deliberately replaced all the European flora with Chinese peonies (牡丹 / mǔdān). Known as the "king of flowers" in Chinese culture, the peony symbolizes prosperity, honor, romance, beauty, and feminine grace. By submerging Ophelia's floating form in a sea of lush, full-blossomed peonies, the piece creates a cultural fusion: the melancholic, ethereal tragedy of Shakespeare's English heroine is re-rooted in an Eastern aesthetic of opulent elegance and quiet resilience. The vibrant yet delicate peonies drift around her like a dreamlike shroud, blending Western literary sorrow with the timeless Chinese reverence for floral beauty and renewal.

The result is a haunting, cross-cultural portrait—Ophelia adrift not in a wild English stream, but in a poetic river of Eastern symbolism, where mourning and majesty intertwine.

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