Caol Ila 28 Year Old 1983 Dimensions Duncan Taylor

Caol Ila Bladnoch forum bottling 1980 / 2009

A 28 year old single cask bottling from the Bladnoch forum. This 1980 Caol Ila has plenty of peat on the nose but still not as much as I expected. It has something of a medicinal iodine hint but nothing too overpowering. In the mouth it is big, really big. Maybe some would say oily. Lots of smoke and heat from the high alcohol content. The peat...

Score 90/100

Caol Ila 14 YO, Cask # LD 6957

Douglas of Drumlanrig is an independent bottler. I thank @Maddie for samples from the reviewed bottle. The reviewed bottle was distilled in September 1996 and bottled in February 2011. I attended a tasting of mostly Douglas Laing products with @Maddie in, I believe, January of 2013. Of the 8 or 10 malts we tasted that night, several 25 to 35 years...

Score 94/100

Caol Ila 9 Year Old 2012 Thompson Brothers

In just a few years, Phil and Simon Thompson have emerged as bottlers of excellent single casks (in addition to their own distilling escapades with Dornoch Distillery, of course). This is one of them. It was bottled exclusively for our northern neighbors. It concerns a young Caol Ila from 2012 from a dechar / rechar barrel, which means as much as...

Score 87/100

Caol Ila 19 Year Old 1995 The Nectar of the Daily Drams

The Nectar of the Daily Drams is a well-known Belgian importer and bottler. Last year they launched this Caol Ila 1995 at cask strength. It is quite a pale animal. The classic traits of Caol Ila emerge immediately: ashes, sea weeds, salty breeze and stockfish. The second whiff offers a lot of sweet fruit: apple (skin included), pear, apricots and...

Score 87/100