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CAOL ILA

Established: 1846
Status: Working
Location: Port Askaig, Isle of Islay
Visitor centre: Yes
Website: No



• Aged 12 Years, 43%
Legless Scotsman's rating: 9+ (94 points)
(Colour: white wine. Nose 23 points: earthy, oily, smoky, sea, hint of peat and tar / Taste 24 points: salty, peppery, smoky / Finish 24 points: spicy, long finish / Balance 23 points. Beautiful scent of smoke hit my nose immediately after removing the cork.)

Shaking in every limb, I groped my way back to the wall - resolving there
to perish rather than risk the terrors of the wells, of which my imagination now
pictured many in various positions about the dungeon. In other conditions of mind,
I might have had courage to end my misery at once, by a plunge into one of these
abysses; but now I was the veriest of cowards. Neither could I forget what I read
of these pits - that the sudden extinction of life formed no part of their most horrible plan.
(Edgar Allan Poe - The pit and the Pendulum)




• Caol Ila, Aged 18 Years, 43%
Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (92 points)
(Colour: pale gold / Nose 23 points: smoky, fruity, tobacco / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, smoky, ripe fruits / Finish 23 points: smoky and long finish / Balance 23 points.)



• Caol Ila 1988, Cognac Wood Finish, distilled 26.10.1988, bottled 8/2000, bottle #0883/3100 (Private Collection, Gordon & McPhail)
Legless Scotsman's rating: 9 (91 points)
(Colour: white wine / Nose 23 points: smoky, sea, antiseptic / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, sea, salty, smoky, peaty / Finish 22 points: long finish / Balance 23 points.)



• Aged 29 Years, c# 2927, b #7/322, d 4/1981, b 8/2010, 47.4% (Duncan Taylor)
Legless Scotsman's rating: 9- (88 points)
(Colour: amber / Nose 21 points: smoky, fruity, cognac, honey, vanilla after water / Taste 23 points: full-bodied, burnt, smoky, fruity / Finish 22 points: long and smoky and fruity finish / Balance 22 points.)



• Natural cask strength, 58%
Legless Scotsman's rating: 8.5 (87 points)
(Colour: ? / Nose 21 points: leather, tobacco, band-aid / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, peaty, salty, smoky, salmiac / Finish 22 points: long and peaty finish / Balance 22 points.)



• Aged 30 Years, d 4.1981, b 10.2011, cask #2928, bottle #165/273, oak cask, 54.8% (Duncan Taylor)
Legless Scotsman's rating: 8+ (83 points)
(Colour: white wine / Nose 18 points: smoky, fireplace, band-aid / Taste 22 points: full-bodied, fruity, honey, smoky / Finish 22 points: long, fruity and smoky finish / Balance 21 points. Would be suitable for a stake sauce or something like that.)



• Caol Ila 1990, 10 Years Old (Connoisseurs Choice, Gordon & McPhail)
Legless Scotsman's rating: 8- (79 points)
(Nose 20 points: medicine / Taste 19 points: light-bodied / Finish 20 points: good finish tho' / Balance 20 points.)





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