CL1 - Elements of Islay
Product Description

A big-boned single Islay malt from a big-windowed distillery with a good view of the Paps. A gem from one of the island's most consistent producers, this is a hefty, uncompromising dram, easily tamed with a drop of water. "A belter of a dram" - Dave Broom.

Product Facts

Product Facts

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    Bottler

    Speciality Drinks Ltd

  • Series Icon

    Series

    Elements of Islay

  • Country Icon

    Country

    Scotland

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    Region

    Islay

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    Colouring

    No

CL1 - Elements of Islay

  • Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky
  • Speciality Drinks Ltd

50cl / 62.9%

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Tasting Notes

Tasting Notes

  • Tasting Notes by Dave Broom

    • This is like sitting on the grass next to a beach in the sun. The taste is crisply smoky and salt-tinged, sweet and sappy. With water, you taste juniper twigs thrown on a beach bonfire on which some sausages are already sizzling.

      On the palate, there's immediate sweetness and power, then the smoke comes through in a great wave of flavour. Much more amenable with water that has a hint of real elegance. This is a belter of a dram.

    These notes are reproduced from Wine & Spirit Magazine

  • Tasting Notes by Rob Allanson

    • Coal tar soap mixed with hot bitumen. Slowly becomes grass fires smelt from the seashore, so you get that saltiness in there too.Palate: Packs quite a punch with a lot of smoke at the front. There is also a sweetness in here shrouded in the smoke.Finish: Short and cleansing.Comment: A great healing malt for those colder days.

    These notes are reproduced from Whisky Magazine

  • Tasting Notes by Dave Broom

    • Highly phenolic. Seaweed and driftwood mingling with hay and a briny/rockpool aroma. There's some stewed pear. Water brings huge smokiness, edible seaweed and hot sand.Palate: Sweet yet peppery. Juniper wood, smoked sausage balanced by a distinct sweetness.Finish: Tingling and salty.Comment: Young, vibrant and brimful of personality.

    These notes are reproduced from Whisky Magazine

  • Tasting Notes by Tim F

    • Nose

      Boiled sweets and cut grass initially, then more savoury notes move in - Bisto, beef crisps. Expected alcohol prickle fades away to chocolate and some bakery notes - dough, brown bread. Some spices, then medicine cabinet aromas develop, before matches, buttered veg, toffee apple, tweed and honey. A complex nose that needs time to settle. Water brings out toffee biscuit and barley sugar.

    • Palate

      Stewed fruit, burnt wood, red apple, smokey bacon, honey. Plenty of balanced peat, with woodsmoke, coal and bonfire. Peppery spice in the mid-palate, with some chilli and hot-buttered toast with honey. Water lifts the coal, spices and apple flavours.

    • Finish

      Warming and long, with honey, pepper and coal surrounding a savoury cereal base, with occasional flashes of cooked apple. A salty tinge right at the death.

    • Comment

      Another Element that likes a drop of water. Intense, powerful, uncompromising and extremely complex.

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Customer Reviews

  • Chris

    Never even tried to review food or drink before but why not give it a try...Like the notes say, add a drop of water. If only because it will take your breath away otherwise. Ive never drank anything this strong! I added 1/4 water and it drinks exceptionally smoothly whilst at the same time having a very smokey rough taste. Add to that a right tinge of sweetness, perhaps bordering on too sweet.It coats the mouth and has a very very long pleasant palette. Not bad at all.

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