Caol Ila 2001 9 Year Old Cask #303804 Adelphi

Caol Ila 27 Year Old 1981 Duncan Taylor Rare Auld

I remember naming a Caol Ila 26 Year Old 1982 Rare Auld from Duncan Taylor ‘on of the best Caol Ila ever tried’ way back in 2013. Today I’m trying one from the same bottler in the same series, but it’s a Caol Ila that went into the cask a year earlier yet bottled in the same year 2008. Will it be another great one? Oh, that’s quite an atypical...

Score 86/100

Caol Ila Provenance 1997 11 Year Old

Just a year younger than the standard bottling of Caol Ila 12 and much like the Provenance Laphroaig its very similar quality but in a slightly different way. * Nose: a light and delicate nose with smoked fish some light earth, coal smoke, rock salt, dark chocolate and a kind of bandage/ petrol note going on. With water a bit more muscular, more...

Score 86/100

Caol Ila Murray McDavid D1991 B2008

First nosing is sherry wood and matchstick and sulphur aromas. Delicious nosing experience. Smooth flavours, oxidized (Maderized) sherry, and tree bark. Really interesting contrast from nose to mouthfeel.

Score 83/100

Caol Ila 13 Year Old Discovery

As the name suggests, this series from Gordon & Macphail is meant to offer the different styles of malt that can be discovered from the Promsied Land. In the glass I have a Caol Ila that matured for 13 years on a bourbon cask, albeit cut to 43%. Soft nose on lime, kiwi and nectarines with a good dose of vanilla, hint of smoked bacon, a soft...

Score 85/100