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| Hello, that is one in all our (virtually) every day tastings. Santé! |
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December 15, 2021
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Extra younger Coal Ila
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| There’s all the time extra Cola Ila. At this tempo we’ll quickly strive our 1,000th Caol Ila and I’m not joking, time to go ask Diageo about that pack of varied marshmallows that they had promised to me, round twenty years in the past. Now I would fortunately commerce that pack for a hogshead of Brora… |
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Caol Ila 10 yo 2010/2021 (48%, LMDW, Artist Collective 5.0, refill sherry butt, 2,139 bottles) 
Whether or not you can name 2K+ bottles a restricted bottling, I am not too positive. In my ebook, Malt Mill or Stromness are ‘restricted’, not fairly Caol Ila. However Caol Ila is all the time good… (S., what’s this awful chitchat about?) Color: amber. Nostril: peat and sherry, that is all the time a difficult mixture. Generally it really works a deal with (Laph 74, Laga 21…) and typically it will simply conflict and fail miserably. Not fairly positive but, smoked espresso okay, smoked ham okay, salted cigars fairly okay, pinewood and raisins comparatively okay… Oh effectively, in these circumstances it is the palate that is king… Mouth: bingo, no clashes, this fairly works. Smoked raisins, smoked oysters, pipe tobacco, salted and peppered chocolate, salty liquorice, salted pine liqueur… Nicely so long as any flavours can take salt, this stays fantastic. Phew, virtually a hold-up. End: lengthy, salty, smoky, a tad ‘darkish’ (synesthesiacal compadres, ahoy!) Feedback: heavy peat and heavy sherry collectively are all the time difficult, typically even straight nightmare worthy of a collection on f****g Netflix. A profitable problem on this very case, even when I choose my CI pure and bare.
SGP:467 – 85 factors. |
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Caol Ila 11 yo 2010/2021 (53.2%, Watt Whisky,Japan unique, hogshead, 326 bottles) 
They’ve it good in Japan. Color: pale white wine. This ought to be fast. Nostril: mercurochrome, lime juice, oyster juice, carbon, seaweed. Millimetric and incredible. In a approach, that is Scottish sake. With water: since we have talked about sake… Mouth (neat): pure candy lemony seaweedy smoky palate. With water: immaculate smoky whisky, getting only a tad extra on rooty greens, beets, celeriac… End: sweeter, lengthy, pure, fermentary, even yeasty, and completely very good. Feedback: excessive purity, white mezcal from Islay. Evidently the years in wooden solely filtered out the roughness and some undesirable aromas and flavours, and saved the spirit completely pure and crystalline. You possibly can virtually settle a brand new faith round these ideas, even when CI is a distillery that is ‘run by one man and thirty computer systems’. Computer systems have change into our masters, have they not?
SGP:456 – 89 factors. |
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Caol Ila 13 yo 2007/2021 (48.5%, Decadent Drinks, Equinox & Solstice)
From their autumn version. Late as ever… I imply, I’m late as ever. Color: white wine. Nostril: completely Islay, that’s to say stuffed with seawater, uncooked wool, chalk and bits of kippers and oysters. What it hasn’t fairly bought this far is lemon however that will come… The woolly facet by no means stops rising on the nostril, I am even discovering some Woolite, washing powder, fresh-laundered sweater and all that. In brief, a really clear CI (you have outdone your self as soon as once more, S.) Mouth: very salty and briney, going in the direction of inexperienced olives and inexperienced peppercorn, whereas some sort of lemon chutney and a sense of coal smoke would complement all that. Smoked olive oil. End: lengthy, with extra smoked olive oil and a number of brine. Very reasonable tarriness, sauvignon blanc and a few whelks within the aftertaste. Grated lime zest. Feedback: very pure, very vertical, extraordinarily good. We’re approaching the 88 mark.
SGP:466 – 87 factors. |
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Caol Ila 13 yo 2007/2021 (55.6%, The Whisky Trade, hogshead, cask #320247, 242 bottles)
I’d suppose this one can be related. Color: White wine. Nostril: not fairly, this one has extra tar, coal, new wellies, additionally iodine, bandages… I’d have put this one on the south shore, actually. With water: it bought rounder, with slightly custard and slightly butterscotch. I suppose the cask had been extra energetic than that of the Decadent one. Some good Islay mud and uncooked peat too after some time. Mouth (neat): nearer on the palate, additionally way more lemony, zesty, tight and certainly, vertical. Extra bruits or bonbons however that could be the upper ethanol. With water: candy, citrusy, with some wine gums. It was not the upper ethanol, this can be a fairly candy Caol Ila. End: lengthy, with some limoncello and one good oyster. Limoncello and oysters? Hem… Feedback: it assume I benefit from the brinier ones a tad higher, however his one was very wonderful too. Certain bets.
SGP:556 – 86 factors. |
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Caol Ila 7 yo 2014/2021 (59.1%, The Whisky Trade, hogshead, cask #311507, 251 bottles)
It is a little younger, no? Let’s examine whether or not the hogshead had been super-fast or not. Color: white wine. Nostril: sweet sugar, croissants, butter cream, smoked malted barley, then ointments and balms. Somewhat jasmine too, maybe contemporary turnips. Intriguing… With water: tends to shut. Weissbeer, plaster, bandages… Mouth (neat): a great deal of sweets, smoked, with some gray pepper and maybe some radishes. One thing gritty in your tongue. With water: water kills the sweets (not obligatorily a foul factor) and makes all of it greener, smokier and extra fermentary. It will additionally pull out some chilli notes. End: fairly lengthy, actually gritty now. Oversteeped inexperienced tea with some lemon. Feedback: not a simple one and probably fairly an instance of an ideal whisky within the making, as Samaroli used to bottle inside his Ageing Monography collection, keep in mind?
SGP:656 – 85 factors. |
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One other very younger one…
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Caol Ila 8 yo 2012/2020 (57.8%, Signatory Classic for Navigate World Whisky, 1st fill sherry butt end, cask #12, 525 bottles)
This one, which was bottled for South Africa, could possibly be slightly explosive, so cautious… Color: copper amber. Nostril: dried porcini and gunpowder at first, then walnut wine, cigars and pipe tobacco. Precisely what we had been anticipating. No clashes peat vs. sherry this far. With water: marrow, umami sauce, Chinese language mushrooms and a brand new field of cigars. Cubans, naturally. Mouth (neat): huge and far sweeter. Peppered blood oranges, maybe, smoked Turkish delights, tarred liquorice allsorts, closely decreased PX (paxarette-style), chilli liqueur… See what I imply? With water: success! Eggplants stewed in honey (I do know that sounds odd) and baked ham glazed with honey. Very beautiful meatiness. End: there, the walnuts are again. Nocino a.okay.a. inexperienced walnut liqueur (verify Silver Seal’s, they’re wonderful!) Feedback: I used to be scared however every part went easily. Very effectively produced. Thoughts you, it is solely 8!
SGP:666 (devilish profile) – 87 factors. |
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Caol Ila 2014/2020 (60.4%, L’Esprit, tenth Anniversary, Château Latour, cask #2005795, 293 bottles)
I do know I am late however pleased anniversary, L’Esprit and Whisky & Rhum! Not too positive this very younger CI spent the totality of its quick life in a Latour cask (so Cabernet purple and contemporary French oak), however let’s simply strive it. Color: blush and orange wine, 50/50. Nostril: blackcurrant buds, geranium, seawater, kippers, liquorice, grapefruits, diesel oil… I am pleased and honoured to report that there are not any clashes this far. With water: bitter wines and beers, bitter cherries… I would have mentioned pinot noir however naturally, there is not a single drop of pinot noir in Latour. Mouth (neat): oh hell, why not! I’d suppose the spirit spent solely a short while in that Latour barrique, because the grasses, the artichokes, the raspberries, and even the tomato leaves in there appear to behave. Some nougat too, sesame, oranges… With water: clap clap clap, that is the most effective half. Raspberry liqueur with some seawater and smoked almonds. Sounds extraordinarily loco, I do know, however since stability was achieved, I’d applaud the mix. I am positive this isn’t solely the results of pure luck. End: lengthy, on peppered and smoked strawberries this time. Strawberries and pepper works. Feedback: phew! Now please make this once more…
SGP:766 – 86 factors. |
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Fast, a final clear one… No, really not, I believe I will hold these smoked strawberries in my mouth for slightly longer, adios.
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