7,000+ Whiskey Database
Nose
Aromatic, darkness, herbal, vegetal, grassy, creamy malt.
Taste
Big, refined sweetness, leafy, integrated oak, smoke, oily, peat, barley.
Finish
Long, herbal notes, gentle smoke, soft peat, oily wood.
Liquor
Caol Ila 18yo Unpeated 2017
Type
ABV
59.8%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Pine and pastry, christmas biscuits, herbal notes, black pepper, hint of sea spray, maritime notes, pine to reveal sweet apple sauce and cinnamon sugar.
Taste
Apple blossom, honeysuckle, piny sherbert tingle, chocolate-covered caramel
Finish
Intense apple, hints of bacon, toffee, black pepper
Liquor
Caol Ila 19 1974 Signatory Vintage
Type
ABV
43%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Spiced pumpkin soup, grilled melon, white cake, cinnamon
Taste
Cola, white cake, mint, peach, cocoa
Finish
Liquor
Caol Ila 19 G&M for Intertrade
Type
ABV
54.6%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Hints of white chocolate, thyme, distant smoke, lemon juice, oysters
Taste
Wave of lemon juice, loads of smoke and ashes, sweeter with marzipan and marmalades, coffee
Finish
Cocoa, hazelnut, lime cola, fire pit, oak
Liquor
Caol Ila 19 SMWS 53.233
Type
ABV
60.50%%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Ashy peat. Wood smoke from aromatic wood. Apple juice. Lavender. Rubber. Hay.
Taste
Thick. Oily. Brine. Seashells. Rubber. Sticky, syrupy notes, like the syrup from canned fruit salad,Lemon juice. Hay.
Finish
Long. Candied lemon. Bit of sherry funk (minus all the other sherry flavours).
Liquor
Caol Ila 1969 G&M for Meregalli
Type
ABV
54.6%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Distant smoke. Lemon juice. Oysters. Very medicinal as well, with iodine and disinfectant
Taste
Loads of smoke and ashes. A third wave is much sweeter with marzipan and marmalades. Some coffee
Finish
Sweet with salty notes, smoked tea and cloves, Very long.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1975 Rare Malts
Type
ABV
61.12%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Earthy and peaty tones, including freshly cut grass and gentle floral hints
Taste
Lashings of vanilla and citrus fruits
Finish
Long finsih
Liquor
Caol Ila 1977 Rare Malts
Type
ABV
61.3%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Fresh
butter and various herbs (dill, fresh
cabbage, spearmint.) Whiffs of metal
and motor oil.
Taste
Lime, lemon squash,
citrus mint, asparagus and white sauvignon,
then sorrel, absinth, fennel and icy
mint.
Finish
Long, a little more
on the tracks but still unusual.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1979 Whisky Agency and Nectar
Type
ABV
52%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Maritime notes (seaweed, shells, mercurochrome) and eucalyptus, while warmer notes are added by yellow apples, soft buttercups and vanilla.
Taste
Then a spicy / salty wave, herbal tea and liquorice. A little tar. Leather. Lemon and grapefruit zest.
Finish
Long, again balanced, softly briny with a coating lemon sweetness.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1979 Berry Own Selection
Type
ABV
53.3%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Costal, spray, sea breeze, oyster shell, salt and pepper. At aeration, there is more smoke and less spray.
Taste
Peat than the nose but some citrus also (mainly lemon).
Finish
Long, liquorice, vanilla.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1979 Mackillop’s Choice
Type
ABV
46%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Lamp oil, hair conditioner, poolwater, sweet tropical fruit.
Taste
Smooth, complex, peat, gummi candy.
Finish
Wood, then lamp oil, salted herring, some tar, aluminium, then medical tablets and lasting peatiness.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1979 Malts of Scotland
Type
ABV
52.3%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Medicinal, grasses, tar and camphor, leather and eucalyptus, almonds, warm ashes.
Taste
Oily / waxy texture, antiseptics and iodine again, tarry notes and liquorice. Seaweed. Then grapefruit and walnuts.
Finish
Very long, sooty and dry with some lemon zest.