Caol Ila 1983 28 Year Old Cask #4825 Berry Bros & Rudd

Caol Ila 12 Year Old

The whisky I'm reviewing is from a 20cl bottle recently bought. If I could sum up this up in one word that word would be oily.I've never really understood the concept of an oily mouth feel but after drinking this now I do. On the nose I first got a sort of briney peatiness swiftly followed by toffee,caramel and a slight herbal note. On the palate...

Score 87/100

Caol Ila 10 Year Old Feis Ile 2018

Caol Ila released a 22 years old malt for Feis Ile 2019, but despite my shout out on social media, I have not (yet) been able to get one. Last year, my buddy Manny was on Islay, so I knew that the Feis Ile 2018 release – a Caol Ila 10 Year Old – would find its way to Ghent. It is a vatting of 8 casks: Refill American Oak Hogsheads and Rejuvenated...

Score 87/100

Caol Ila 18 Year Old 1996 Old Malt Cask Hunter Laing

Since the brothers Fred and Stuart Laing each went their own way – in which Fred kept the company Douglas Laing and brought his daughter Cara and son-in-low Chris Leggat on board and Stuart Laing started a new company Hunter Laing with his two sons – the Old Malst Cask belongs to the latter. The whisky under this banner is traditionally bottled at...

Score 86/100

Caol Ila 13 Year Old Signatory

A young Caol Ila at a cask strength of no less than 59,9%? That surely must give fireworks. It was bottled in the Signatory Cask Strength Collection, in one of those beautiful decanters that grandma uses to keep her olive oil in afterwards. Let us get to work! The nose is surprisingly soft for such an alcohol bomb. And very salty. The coastal...

Score 86/100