7,000+ Whiskey Database
Liquor
Caol Ila 36 1980 Douglas Laing Xtra Old Particular
Type
ABV
57.4%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Bandages, embrocations, walnut skins, and
fresh paint.
Taste
Blade-y, almondy, medicinal, salty, lemony,
and extremely kippery
Finish
Long, impeccably clean, almondy, smoky, lemony, greasy, kippery
Nose
Oily and maritime with sea-salt and wisps of smoke
Taste
Damp leaves developing to bonfire smoke and summer BBQs
Finish
Sweet – lusciously long – soot, charred wood and honeycomb
Liquor
Caol Ila 5 Hepburn’s Choice K&L
Type
ABV
61.1%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Cruciferous specifically, without being farty. There’s also cocoa power, cumin, celery juice and a little bit of tar
Taste
Very warm. It’s also aggressively sweet, with cinnamon, lemon candy and Blue Moon beer
Finish
Hot and sweet and peaty and tangy.
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Caol Ila 6 “Hepburn’s Choice” (2009)
Type
ABV
58.2%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Peat, grapey/wine sweetness, vanilla fondant, fruit leather and smoke
Taste
Peat, grapey/wine sweetness, vanilla fondant, fruit leather and smoke with a bit of sulfur and menthol
Finish
Long,Sweet dried dark fruit, smoke, vanilla and sulfur that mixes
Liquor
Caol Ila 6 2009 Old Malt Cask
Type
ABV
50%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Young and sweet, big vanilla. Super fruity, really loaded with Dole fruit syrupy sugar notes and a big, wet peat presence. Earthy and mossy.
Taste
Medium mouth feel, musty and sweet. The peat is super earthy and mineral forward and it almost tastes wine finished – there is a ton of fruit character here.
Finish
Long and earthy with a lot of pepper, salty smoke and dominant earthy peat.
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Caol ila 6yr Red Wine Cask (Creative Whisky Co.)
Type
ABV
57.4%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Intense ash smoke, followed by limes pears and bananas, slight smell of rasberries and cranberries
Taste
Super sweet with red berries, strawberries candy, this is then pushed back by strong ash smoke and a tropical food basket comes into place.
Finish
Semi long,oak pretty soon embodied into the classic caol ila smoke,spicyness and slight
Nose
Vanilla saltwater taffy, honey candy, peat, Nilla Wafers, plastic, toffee, fresh coffee shop scones, dried fruit, minerally spirit and char.
Taste
Waxy vanilla, smoke, citrus, malt, honey graham, plastic, toffee, scones, dried fruit, seaweed, minerally spirit and char.
Finish
Long -> Smoke, minerality and waxy vanilla delivered in a nice silken drawl.
Liquor
Caol Ila 8 2006 Alexander Murray
Type
ABV
40%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Apples, honey, peat, vanilla, burnt plastic and malt with a touch of charred sugar. Not unpleasant, but light, topical and a bit spirity
Taste
Apples, honey, peat, vanilla, malt, charred sugar and a light bit of burnt plastic. Again, Not unpleasant, but light, topical and a bit spirity
Finish
Medium fade of peat, fruit and charred sugar.
Liquor
Caol Ila 8 2011 Single Malts of Scotland
Type
ABV
61.3%
Region
Distiller
Nose
A bit of a dirty, buttery, slightly sulphury note in the background, although this disappears. Deep sooty notes, hints of tar. Burning leaves on a bonfire. Some mentholated notes and lemon peels add freshness
Taste
Sweet onset,dried Mediterranean herbs,Plenty of briny and smoky,Light caramel
Finish
Medium, still sweet, ashy and peppery
Nose
Very clean fresh, slightly sweet with touches of raspberry leaf, melon balls/rind, green banana. Fruity and gentle but seems young
Taste
Light and lively. Juicy mid palate with that melon character coming to the fore. Delightful.
Finish
Fizzy, spicy, lingering. A slight bitter
Liquor
Caol Ila 8 Unpeated Special Release 2007
Type
ABV
59.8%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Very clean fresh and slightly sweet with touches of raspberry leaf, melon balls/rind, green banana
Taste
Light and lively. Juicy mid palate with that melon character coming to the fore.
Finish
Fresh, slightly green grassy.
Liquor
Caol Ila 8 Unpeated Style
Type
ABV
59.8%
Region
Distiller
Nose
Very clean fresh and slightly sweet with touches of raspberry leaf, melon balls/rind, green banana
Taste
Light and lively. Juicy mid palate with that melon character coming to the fore.
Finish
Fresh, slightly green grassy.