Official tasting notes
Nose: Lots of aniseed, salted liquorice, wormwood, and wintergreen. A feeling of many ointments, medicines, and root extracts. Overlaid with a sweet and thick peat smoke.
Palate: a seriously big and mouth-coating example of Caol Ila. More industrial aspects of
coal tar soap, boiler smoke and engine oil mix with natural tar extracts, fir wood resins and
cured meats. Still wonderfully on aniseed and smoked fennel.
Finish: long, very tarry, sweetly medicinal, oily, and full of leathery peat smoke, ointments,
and herbal liqueurs.”.
Whisky Sponge Edition No. 66 ‘Caol Ila Distillery’ 12 Year Old Single Cask 700ml 56.3%
$299.00
From the warehouses of Signatory Vintage – Yielding 374 bottles.
Details
700ml: 56.3%alc
Age: 12-year-old
Region: Islay
Distillery: Caol Ila
Cask type: Sherry
Bottler: Whisky Sponge/Decadent Drinks
Vintage: 2009
Bottling Date: 2022
Description
A hearty and juicy Caol Ila fully matured for 12 years in a single 2nd fill sherry butt filled in 2009 and bottled at natural cask strength of 56.3% with no added colour of chill filtration.
Whisky Sponge amusingly comments:
“Sherry and peat can be uneasy bedfellows in modern whisky, but this cask shows a lovely balanced profile of gently salty and gamey sherry with big, syrupy and tarry peat smoke.”
About Caol Ila Distillery
Founded in 1846 by Hector Henderson, the Caol Ila distillery is situated on the west coast of Scotland in Islay near Port Askaig overlooking the cove and the Paps of Southern Jura. It’s the largest of eight working distilleries on the island of Islay and draws its water from Loch Nam Ban, whose water travels through peat and limestone before reaching the distillery. Lauded by malt lovers across the world, Caol Ila produces a lighter whisky, pale in colour with peppery, peaty and floral notes.
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