Product Description

A great new Caol Ila for our Single Malts of Scotland Range. Concentrated peat and some lovely honeyed edges make this one to savour. See our tasting notes for more details.

Product Facts

Bottler
Speciality Drinks Ltd
Series
Single Malts of Scotland
Age
16 Year Old
Vintage
1991
Bottling Date
14th March 2007
No of Bottles
298
Country
Scotland
Region
Islay
Cask Number
851
Chill Filtered
No
Colouring
No

Caol ila 1991 16 Year Old

Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Speciality Drinks Ltd

70cl / 54.7%

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Tasting Notes

Tasting Notes by Dr. Whisky
- Luscious, weighty nose, full of toffee sweetness, citrus, wet hay and freshly dry cleaned shirts. Smoker's fingers, scotch broth, and Chinatown at night (vinegar and white pepper, roast pork, fresh fish, and cleaning products). With water there is a bubblegum sweetness, almost spearminty, and more scented all-purpose cleaners.
  Viscous in the mouth (scotch broth again?), pleasantly oily, with absolutely enormous peat and smoke. Nutty and fruity, maybe macadamia and papaya, with the starchy sweetness of fresh cut potatoes. With water there are cashews, credit card plastic, and an earthy peatiness. Slightly drying with smoke and more smoke through the finish. Minutes later I can still taste it and there are coastal elements of sea salt, peat, wet stone, and fish.
  SUMMARY:
  Well, good morning, sunshine. Pow! Big, oily, smoky whisky with sweetness and other characteristics to work their magic as well. Water can be used like an EQ with this whisky, adjusting the different frequencies: bringing the sea closer, making the lemon more pronounced, drawing out the sweetness, etc. Islay lovers will find much to enjoy here and peat freaks will relish this stuff straight out of the bottle. Impressive stuff that doesn't mess about.
These tasting notes are reproduced from drwhisky.blogspot.com
Tasting Notes from Whiskyfun (Serge Valentin)
- Colour
  Pale straw.
- Nose
  All on lemon, white pepper and peat smoke, with hints of tealeaves and moderate farminess (wet hay, farmyard after the rain – pfff). And apple skin. Rather sharp but beautifully clean. Whiffs of wet stones.
- With water
  Gets chalkier, more maritime and more vegetal as well.
- Mouth (neat)
  Big notes of lapsang souchong tea, hints of wasabi, quite some salt, lemon marmalade. Bold mouth feel, almost sort of fat – pleasantly so.
- With water
  Even more peat, hints of kippers and salted liquorice.
- Comment
  Very smoky finish (dry smokiness). Excellent Islayer, exactly what you expect from this kind of ‘label’. 88 points.
Tasting Notes by Arthur Motley
- Nose
  White / lemon pepper, some cereally sweet oat notes of youth.
- Palate
  Lemon puff biscuits, vanilla and a leafiness. A chalky smokiness, and maybe like barbecued fish at times.
- Finish
  A lingering, tingling pepperiness.
- Comments
  Lively, lip-smacking Islay. More good stuff from Sukhinder and his Whisky Exchange gang.
- Score
  8.5.
These tasting notes are reproduced from Whisky Magazine No. 64
Tasting Notes by Dave Broom
- Nose
  Once the alcohol flashes off the smoke rushes out along with citrus, freshly cut green grass, oyster shells and a youthful bleachy note.
- Palate
  Good mix of intense leafy smoke and an oily succulent feel. Melon. Fresh fish. Generous and silky.
- Finish
  Smoky. Lobster creels.
- Comments
  Just one of a great clutch of smoky drams this time around.
- Score
  8.5.
These tasting notes have been reproduced from Whisky Magazine No. 64
Tasting Notes by TF
- Nose
  Smoke and a pronounced toasted cereal character usually found in younger peated malts. Also grass / wet hay, iodine, some traces of oily smoked fish. A savoury nose.
- Palate
  Good spicy peat attack. Toffee. Big wave of pepper. Some lovely sweet syrup notes, traces of exotic fruit. The peat is sweet, chewy and very persisitent.
- Finish
  The peat just doesn't quit. Immensely long, honeyed, peppery and warming.
- Comment
  Peatheads are unlikely to be disappointed with this. A beauty with an epic finish.