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Nose
Wood smoke and peat smoke. A fruitiness underneath I think. A sort of soot aroma in the smoke
Taste
Peat bursts on the toungue, then mellows out. Becomes more peat smoke and less wood smoke.
Finish
Long
Liquor
Caol Ila 1990 Signatory (Binny’s)
Type
ABV
46%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Melted, salted butter and wet peat smoke, with a touch of smoldering campfire embers and smoked meat.
Taste
Oily peat smoke, salt, pipe tobacco, vanilla.
Finish
Smoky ash and salt, with a touch of pepper.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1990-2012 Archives
Type
ABV
53.1%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Creamy Malt, Tangy Peat, Black Pepper, french Vanilla, Lemon, Cardboard/Musty Wood, Honey, Diced Apples/Pears, Pineapple, Butterscotch, Light Char, Wood Smoke
Taste
Dry Barley, Lemon, Vanilla, Rounded Oak, Tangy Peat, Chopped Apples, Prickly Black Pepper, Charcoal/Barrel Char
Finish
Vanilla, Peat (lightly), Smoke, Barrel Char, Mineral.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1991 Murray McDavid
Type
ABV
46%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Rich, subtly sweet (surprisingly) fruit and the gentle peat smoke, iodine, rubber and brine.
Taste
Sweet with buckets of creamy apricot and malt flavours, peat and coastal notes fight, wine-fruit.
Finish
Big, sweet malts.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1991 The Cooper’s Choice
Type
ABV
46%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Soft, salt, peaty, rich and well-balanced, hint of herbs and unripe citrus, mustard seeds
Taste
Chocolate, smoke, grain, hazelnuts and sweetness.
Finish
Caramel, summer fruits, ashes. Medium length. Slightly metallic in the end.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1992 Signatory (Cask 06/558/2)
Type
ABV
58%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Cinnamon candy in this (red hots and chewing gum) with some herbal notes
Taste
Good texture with lots of mint, eucalyptus and loads of peat
Finish
Long toasty finish
Liquor
Caol Ila 1992 Signatory Cask Strength
Type
ABV
119.8%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Sea salt and pickled fish outnumber the fruit
Taste
Sweetness, salt, citrus, peel included, and a touch of caramel.
Finish
Long, warm, slightly drying and a
veritable
Liquor
Caol Ila 1992 Signatory Vintage
Type
ABV
59.9%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Sea salt and pickled fish outnumber the fruit
Taste
Sweetness, salt, citrus, peel included, and a touch of caramel.
Finish
Long, warm, slightly drying and a
veritable
Liquor
Caol Ila 1992 The Whisky Agency “Moody Lions”
Type
ABV
51.4%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Noble wood, varnish, leather, wax paste.
Raisin, prune, bramble, toasted almond.
Light dust, old book.
Taste
Prune, dried fruits, toasted almond, date, fig.
Light medicinal, mint, camphor.
Pepper, light charcoal.
Finish
Cherry dried fruits, leather, undergrowth, liquorice.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1993 Murray McDavid
Type
ABV
46%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Plenty of sherry sweet fruit, coffee, peat, orange and a touch of brine and seaweed crackers.
Taste
Sherry dominated with some gentle peat, coffee and plenty of lasting smoke.
Finish
Good depth with a balancing tart citrus note.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1993 Nectar of the Daily Drams
Type
ABV
51.8%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Olive oil, smoke, wet ashes, wet cardboard, greasy peat.
Taste
Taste
Pepper and iodized undercoat, citrus, oily with a drier and powdery (ashy).
Finish
Short, smoke, a very fine woody bitterness accompanied by barley / malt sugar.
Liquor
Caol Ila 1994 Connoisseur’s Choice
Type
ABV
52.5%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Rich Sherry aromas complement atumnal spices and oak
Taste
Stewed red berries give way to cinnamon and toffee apples
Finish
A medium-bodied finish with lingering spice