Caol Ila 1969 18 Year Old Sestante Carato

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

Caol Ila 10 Year Old Maltman

I just cannot get enough of Caol Ila. I have said it before and I will gladly repeat it: Caol Ila is one of the most underrated Islay malts, always in the shadow of the Kildalton Trio. Unwarranted, as this young bottling by the Maltman goes to show. The waxy nose immediately transports me to a bonfire on the beach with struck matches, oyster...

Score 81/100

Caol Ila Douglas Laing Provenance

This was the first sample of a Big Peat Tweet tasting hosted by the WhiskyWire Colour: Very pale, white wine, barely any colouring from the cask. Probably due its young age and lack of lower contact with the cask: matured in a refill hogshead. (One thing's for sure, no E150 was added in either of these whiskies. So, no masks, no false facades,...

Score 82/100

Caol Ila 9 Year Old 2012 Thompson Brothers

In just a few years, Phil and Simon Thompson have emerged as bottlers of excellent single casks (in addition to their own distilling escapades with Dornoch Distillery, of course). This is one of them. It was bottled exclusively for our northern neighbors. It concerns a young Caol Ila from 2012 from a dechar / rechar barrel, which means as much as...

Score 87/100