Caol Ila 9 Year Old 2000 Provenance Douglas Laing

Caol Ila 18 Year Old 1996 Old Malt Cask Hunter Laing

Since the brothers Fred and Stuart Laing each went their own way – in which Fred kept the company Douglas Laing and brought his daughter Cara and son-in-low Chris Leggat on board and Stuart Laing started a new company Hunter Laing with his two sons – the Old Malst Cask belongs to the latter. The whisky under this banner is traditionally bottled at...

Score 86/100

Caol Ila 15 Year Old 2002 Valinch & Mallet

I tried this 15 year old Caol Ila at a festival in Antwerp a few weeks ago. I was sold from the get-go. It was the best thing I tasted that day. Owner Davide Romano and I spoke about Valinch & Mallet for quite a while. He founded the company in 2015 and is not very well-known in my neck of the woods, which is sad as so far I have only tasted...

Score 88/100

Caol Ila 16 Year Old Cadenhead’s Warehouse

During Spirits in the Sky, the amazing whisky festival in Brussels organized by The Nectar, I participated in the Cadenhead's Warehouse Tasting where we could taste a number of cask samples from the warehouses from this bottler in Campbeltown. In the glass is a 16-year-old Caol Ila that has matured on a sherry cask. Although not mentioned, it must...

Score 87/100

Caol Ila 19 Year Old 1995 Signatory

The Un-Chillfiltered Collection from Signatory is always bottled without chill filtration (doh!) and at a drinking strength of 46%. Signatory married three casks for this release of 729 bottles. This Caol Ila from 1995 is as pale as white wine. Surprisingly sweet nose in which the fruit and mostly a lot of vanilla come first. The fruit reminds me...

Score 84/100