56,9°
Distillery : Caol Ila - Islay
Refill Ex-Bourbon Hogshead
Independent Bottling
By The Scotch Malt Whisky Society
Limited Edition
Single Cask
Bottled in 2022
Unchillfiltered, Uncoloured, Cask Strength
Peated around 35 ppm
Already the 410th bottling of Caol Ila at the Scotch Malt Whisky
Society, a trading company and also a club founded in 1983 by
Pip Hills. This time it's an 11 year old, aged in a single Bourbon
Hogshead, released in 270 bottles, and quickly sold out, as usual.
This is an exclusive bottling, intended solely for La Maison du Whisky
as part of its Antipodes range.
Let's Taste It :
Coal, soot, tide, sea spray, waves whipping across the face, kelp and seaweed.
Iodine by shovelful. Very large fullness. A cathedral of iodine. A drizzle
of vanilla lemon. Pepper and cloves. The waves rock us. Medicinal
touch, dressings, bandages, disinfectant. On the palate, oysters and
Bourbon, crayfish, scallops, whelks, vanilla and pastry cream. Spices just the way
it should be, cumin, ginger. Very nice finish, long and explosive, a
mirabelle plum melts under the tongue and shards of filthy lignite.
Icing sugar and sea water. Raisin Chasselas.
In Short,
This is pure essence of Caol Ila. At the heart of its backbone. Caol Ila from Caol Ila. In the spinal nerve. It's terribly good. Just a few fruity
elements. The rest is only the intensity of a distillery that has no equal.
How can it be sold out? This bottling is in the public interest, it should be
available for eternity.
Score : 90
To Be Listened While Sipping :
Screaming Trees - Julie Paradise
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