Caol Ila 27 Year Old Douglas Laing & Co (The Whisky Barrel Exclusive)

Caol Ila 12 Year Old

My wife purchased an extremely awesome Christmas present for me this year. A calender. A very special calender. A calender made of whiskies! Entry level whiskies, old whiskies, cask strength whiskies, whiskies from around the world. Sweeet! I'd tasted a few of them before, some I'd reviewed before, but now I was finally moving into new whisky...

Score 81/100

Caol Ila 12 Year Old

There is no rhyme or reason why I should like this one according to my taste preferences, but I do. It is similar to things in life such as Vietnamese fish sauce, whereby once you get past the smell, you find yourself craving it. Maybe it's like a volatile relationship whereby the couple can't live with each other, nor live without each other. At...

Score 88/100

Caol Ila Cask Strength Caol Ila 1998 (Gordon & Macphail)

This was an interesting experience, since you don't get sherried Caol Ila from their official bottling, if I am not mistaken. However, I believe there is a good reason why they don't have such things in their official line of products. And that reason is simple: it just doesn't work!. Here's why... NOSE: sweet, brown sugar, and very big and very...

Score 71/100

Caol Ila 14 Year Old 2001 Gordon & Macphail Hermitage Wine Casks Finish

This 14 Year Old Caol Ila Hermitage Wine Casks Finish from 2001 was released in Gordon & Macphail’s Private Collection series, in which only exclusive casks that were chosen by the G&M management are bottled. A Caol Ila on wine? Really? Hmm. Let us give it a try. As soon as I pour this into my glass, it is clear that this is going to be...

Score 85/100