Caol Ila 1981 Flora & Fauna - Cask Strength
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Caol Ila |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | Flora & Fauna - Cask Strength |
| Vintage | 1981 |
| Bottled Year | 1997 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 63.8% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
light, grainy, grassy, with some notes of fresh butter. A simple one a bit fresher and cleaner, yet spirity and yeasty. Apple juice, hay, rabbit cage. Again a simple one – nothing special fresh but spirity and very grassy and yeasty. Stale beer, Guiness, rotting apples, varnish. This one isn’t enjoyable and too rough, if you ask me powerful, apples, pears, daisies, dog, perfect balance
restaurant Palate
a bit of peat, sea air, light caramel. Too bad it’s a little too weak and too grainy. The finish is quite woody and dry, with some notes of ale. 79 points. Caol Ila 1981/1996 (63.4%, Gordon & MacPhail Cask Strength, casks #2081 /2086) sugary and bitter at the same time. Over infused herbal tea, burnt bread… It doesn’t get any better with water. 71 points . Caol Ila 12 yo (60.2%, James MacArthur, early 1990’s) spirity and even pungent. Almost undrinkable – let’s add some water… It gets a bit better – just a bit. Still very grassy and bitter. Let’s stop the pain right now. No interest whatsoever, just spirit. 69 points . DO YOU KNOW WOOGLE? Take some simple tasting notes, like for instance these imaginary ones: Ardbeg 30 years official bottling sherry finishing spirity, pungent, fruity, fudge, lots of body. Long and spicy finish. 84 points . Now, check what it gives using only pictures here . Funny, isn't it! It's Woogle .that made it. MUSIC – Recommended listening - African rythms plus Western arrangements, that often fails and sounds too 'easy' but with Issa Bagayogo , from Mali, it works pretty well. Listen to Sissi.mp3 and you'll probably see what I mean. And please buy African music... October 19, 2005 CONCERT REVIEW by Nick Morgan ALABAMA 3, The Astoria, London, October 11th 2005 What better place to start a congested autumn season of Whiskyfun concert reviews than the crumbling majesty of Charing Cross Road’s Astoria theatre? Did you know that the Astoria began its life as a pickle factory, owned by Crosse & Blackwell, now famous as manufacturers of that most English of tracklements, Branston Pickle (which, I’m assured by those who know, Keith Richards always takes with him on tour with the Stones)? Why, even Charles Booth visited the place when conducting his famous survey into life and labour in London in the late nineteenth century. In 1927 it reopened as a cinema and went through a variety of guises before ending up as one of London’s leading gay nitespots
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