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| Hello, that is certainly one of our (nearly) each day tastings. Santé! |
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January 27, 2022
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Since we have been nonetheless having somewhat extra CI that we wished to strive earlier than they evaporate (yeah proper)… Simply two of them. Or three. And first, an apéritif…
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Port Askaig 15 yo ‘sherry’ (45.8%, Specialty Drinks, First fill oloroso sherry butts, +/-2017) 
Clearly, we must always have tried this one earlier, however I all the time wish to hold some wee apéritifs for future wants. Color: gold. Nostril: peat and sherry, the eternally unsure mixture. Could possibly be good, might additionally strike the mistaken chord in your mind, like a starting one-armed violinist (oh come on). However excellent news, this one’s not dissonant, the sherry remained on fumes and somewhat burnt rubber, whereas the coastal peat would hold singing loud and clear for us. Say a fatter oyster with somewhat tabasco, walnut wine and, certainly, peaty whisky. Bandages. Mouth: a sense of smoked salty oysters, walnuts, cigar ashes and simply oloroso certainly. Very oxidative, somewhat leathery. Not extraordinarily straightforward and positively not ‘clear’. End: lengthy, spicier. Tobacco, walnuts, salt and tarry rubber. Bitter oranges within the aftertaste. Feedback: completely good if somewhat excessive, however I am not fairly recognising Caol Ila’s contemporary and ‘lighter’ facet. Sherry generally is a difficult beast. Even the smoke’s fairly heavy, in reality.
SGP:477 – 82 factors. |
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Port Askaig ‘100° Proof’ (57.1%, Elixir Distillers, +/-2018)
Color: white wine. Nostril: ziiing. Kiwi juice, lime, granny smith and wakame, plus touches of beech-smoked salmon. A bit of mercurochrome, iodine… A lot nicer than I remembered (however that was an earlier vatting). With water: very medicinal, I am positive this one would expel Omicron for good. Mouth: massive fruity smoke, or smoky fruitiness. Lemons, sauvignon blanc, seawater and ashes. A bit of kiwi juice once more. With water: no complaining, it is a good younger, salty and ashy dram, tense and tight. Feels somewhat ‘reposado’ moderately than ‘aged’, however that is for the nice. End: very lengthy, superb, very tight, smoky, salty. Twenty-four oysters within the aftertaste. Feedback: very brilliant and fairly demonstrative. On your neighbours who’ve by no means tried peat earlier than.
SGP:456 – 86 factors. |
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Caol Ila 10 yo (60.6%, James Eadie, USA unique, 2021)
No image, sorry. Color: pale white wine. Nostril: even tighter! Damp chalk, lime juice, wee flat oysters, unripe gooseberries and bandages. It is that sharp that even the smoke would not fairly get by at this stage. With water: crushed chalk and scoria. It is even somewhat basaltic. Mouth (neat): somewhat newmakey however since Caol Ila’s an ideal distillate, we shan’t file a criticism. Lemon juice, granny smith, a contact of menthol, oysters and seawater, ashes. With water: I’ll have used this round 200 occasions already, however I will say ‘smoked limoncello’. Will get actually rounder and sweeter after water’s been added, maybe a wee tad simplistic now. End: lengthy, with nots of pear syrup that we weren’t anticipating. Us, not them. Lemon juice within the aftertaste. Feedback: maybe one other one for these fortunate neighbours.
SGP:567 – 85 factors
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Caol Ila 8 yo 2013/2021 (60.6%, Elixir Distillers, Whisky Path, Silhouettes, hogshead, cask #304580, 291 bottles, 2021)
Pretty label, very 1966 up-design. Color: straw. Nostril: fairly bitter, on riesling, rhubarb juice, muscadet (nothing to do with muscat) and bitter cream. (Paperback) raita. With water: will get very chalky. Whiffs of inexperienced barley. Mouth (neat): sweeter, smokier as nicely, filled with dry ashes, with even some coal mud (good, a sense of mentioned factor) and a superb glass of… drumroll… limoncello! With water: beautiful natural liqueurs, genepy, Bénédictine (it is a scandal that so few individuals would drink Bénédictine nowadays), plus a tiny little bit of barely ripe Victoria pineapple. Don’t mock me. End: lengthy and really ashy. Very Caol Ila. Feedback: the utter youth do not fairly really feel right here. A beautiful spirit-driven drop that belongs with the gentians, mezcals and white Jamaicans. Forgot to say crushed kippers, however by no means apologize (says a sure Boris J.)
SGP:367 – 87 factors. |
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I do know we have mentioned two or three, however since we’re in full circulate… A final one, from Asia this time…
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Caol Ila 13 yo 2007/2021 (57.4%, Whisky AGE, refill hogshead, cask #320323, 289 bottles)
Color: white wine. Nostril: in all probability probably the most medicinal of all of them. Ointments, tincture of iodine, simply medicinal alcohol, bandages, plaster, plasticine, linseed oil, a contact of turpentine, cider apples… With water: uncooked wool and crushed chalk. Typical. Mouth (neat): sends shivers down your backbone while you swallow your first drop, however that is not an disagreeable feeling, thoughts you. What’s positive is that it is a super-tight salty-lemony drop. Crushed tinned sardines drizzled with lemon juice, then stuffed vine leaves. With water: completely vertical, minimal, ultra-tight, salty and smoky, with only a drop of, wait… Limoncello! A couple of years in the past the AOILP (affiliation of Italian limoncello producers) had mentioned that they might ship a kind of orange Lamborghinis to me, however I have not even acquired a free pin. And but I hold quoting them, because the caravan retains transferring on. So long as they would not ship a bottle, I am fantastic. End: lengthy, pure, tight, with a drop of olive oil within the aftertaste. Nicely, an olive-green Aston Martin can be good too… Feedback: wonderful Caol Ila, actually, very pure and fairly spectacular.
SGP:566 – 87 factors. |
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