Caol Ila Distillery
ABV: 60.9%
Age: 10 Years Old
Year Bottled: 2009
Style: Single Malt
Country: Scotland
Region: Islay
Bottling: Malts of Scotland
Overall
Score
8.2
Nose
A complex and almost feral quality. Starts buttery with a little raisin then comes the perfumed smoke then dunnage, warm bracken, nuts, digestive biscuit, light oak.
Palate
Smoke develops fully here:paprika-coated nuts, wood embers, incense. Explodes in the middle of the tongue bringing out a lightly medicinal quality, then cedar.
Finish
Complex and long.
Comment
A fascinating, exotic, Caol Ila and all the better for being relatively young.
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