Caol ila 1990 14 Year Old Adelphi

Caol Ila 10 Year Old Single Cask Collection

Let’s stay on Islay for a while and try three Caol Ila head-to-head. We’ll start with a young one: a 10 Year Old, bourbon barrel #309889, from the Austrian independent bottler Single Cask Collection. After the initial alcohol fumes have dissipated, my olfactory organ takes in a big dose of peat smoke and citrus (lemon, peel included). Quite a bit...

Score 83/100

Caol ila Cask Strength

Today I finished my working day sipping a glass of Caol Ila 12 yo kindly offered by my professor, so I remembered I still had a sample of their Natural Cask Strength edition and decided to give it a try, just to see how they compare. Here's my review! Color and body: very light color, fino sherry according to the Connossr bar. I'm swirling the...

Score 86/100

Caol Ila 10 Year Old 2000 Berry Bros & Rudd

Purveyor to the royal household Berry Brothers from London often puts out malts under their own label, like this young Caol Ila from 2000. It was bottled especially for Whisky Import Nederland in 2011. Lovely strength, if you ask me. Very pale liquid. Sweet and sour on lime juice, peach with mild peat smoke and something umami that reminds me of...

Score 87/100

Caol Ila Hart Brother bottling 8 Year Old

The nose is full of peat with an undertone of spice, I could sit and sniff all day - very 'morish.' The taste is warm and wonderfully complex, it starts with a hint of sweetness then evolves into a nuts, salt and peat before a long finish of gentle spices and smoke. There is a medicinal hint, but it is a less upfront than the lagavulins or...

Score 85/100