7,000+ Whiskey Database
Liquor
Caol Ila & Braeval 10 Double Barrel Douglas Laing
Type
ABV
46%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Spiced, banana, apricots, sweet peat and olive oil.
Taste
Oily with creamy sweetness up, edicinal notes, tar, liquorice, salt, spices speak
Finish
Mildly drying with a little bitterness
Liquor
Caol Ila 10 – Hart Brothers
Type
ABV
46%%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Spirity, orchard fruit, clay, oil, malt and smoked nuts.
Taste
Spirit, orchard fruit, spice, clay, malt, smoke and herbal.
Finish
Long. Smoke, orchard fruit and clay.
Liquor
Caol Ila 10 2009 Cooper’s Choice
Type
ABV
54.5%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Waves of smouldering bonfires, with raisins, and some tawny marmalade.
Taste
Peppery spice joins the earthy peat, with grilled peaches, and oaky vanilla.
Finish
Tar and scorched sugar, with some candied citrus peels.
Liquor
Caol Ila 10 Berry Bros & Rudd
Type
ABV
46%%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Sea breeze, toasted teacakes, honey, and petrichor.
Taste
Demerara sugar, anise, earthy peat with a crackle of red chilli flake heat.
Finish
Richly coastal on the finish.
Nose
Sweet malty raw spirit, green apple, pear, vanilla caster sugar, tinned peaches in syrup, a bit gentle.
Taste
Light fruity arrival, pear juice, plum flesh, firm peach, Juicy Fruit Gum, dry baking spices the fruit continues through the finish which brings more spirity pepper.
Finish
Bourbon brings woody and floral notes and a slight bitterness.
Liquor
Caol Ila 10 Cadenhead 58.8%
Type
ABV
46%%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Peaty, salty, vanilla, citrus, green malt and it has a nice freshness to it.
Taste
Peaty, citrus, smoked meat, malt and salt water taffy
Finish
Chalky, malty and smoky.
Nose
Cocoa, cream, peat, lemon, sea air, pear
Taste
Radish, peat, potato, leak, brown butter, peppered bacon
Finish
Cream, a whole shit tonne and maybe some extra helpings of smoke, peat, caramel, blueberry, pepper
Liquor
Caol Ila 10 Gordon & MacPhail
Type
ABV
59.20%%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Buttercream frosting, malt, green bananas, old vanilla beans and smoke.
Taste
Buttercream frosting, malt, green bananas, nougat and smoke.
Finish
Long -> Fruit, buttercream, smoke, minerality.
Liquor
Caol Ila 10 Medoc Finish Chieftains
Type
ABV
43%
Region
Distiller
Nose
A mixture of Peat, Smoke, Rubber, Medicinal Alcohol and Sea Water
Taste
Peat, Sugar, Light Spices and unexpected hints of Milk Chocolate.
Finish
Quite long, perhaps even too long with Peat, Rubber, Sugared Herbal Tea and Licorice
Nose
The nose has a subtle sweetness
Taste
Hints of seaweed and peat smoke that develop in the palate alongside dried fruits
Finish
The finish is long and lingering with a last wisp of smoke.
Nose
Brown sugar, malted milk biscuits, apricot and shellfish
Taste
Spicy notes with black pepper and sea salt alongside orchard fruits and caramel
Finish
Long lasting with smoke, salt and citrus to finish
Liquor
Caol Ila 11 2005 Gordon & MacPhail bottled for Carnegie Whisky Cellars Exclusive
Type
ABV
64.9%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Vegetal, vanilla custard, brown butter, mushroom, moss, popcorn, pear, lime pie filling
Taste
Butter, brine, pepper, sand, lime zest, mushroom, pear
Finish
Lime pudding, ginger, lemongrass, cream, brown sugar, white pepper, cinnamon