Caol Ila 1998 CWM Magdalene College Sound of Islay
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Caol Ila |
| Bottler | Cambridge Wine Merchants (CWM) |
| Bottling Series | Magdalene College Sound of Islay |
| Vintage | 1998 |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 40.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
white wine
air Nose
very spirity, grassy and coffeeish like many high-octane malts. Lots of newly mown grass, limestone and… and? Yeah, let’s add a little water! Oh, it gets even grassier and mineral, even after a few minutes. Very grainy and buttery as well, with some very nice notes of rosemary and thyme coming through. Wild carrots? Interesting, nevertheless, and very, very ‘natural’, with little direct wood influence
restaurant Palate
unexpectedly drinkable, sweet and joyous, on apple compote and marzipan, pear spirit, boxed pineapple… Right, it’s starting to burn now… Water please! That worked, it really improved. Nice notes of gentian (do you know ‘Suze’?), liquorice stick, sugared tea… Gets even grassier, tea-ish (not the kind of tea you find in tired malts), with also hints of white chocolate and dried coconut. It’s good, and the finish is rather long, grassy again, getting just a tad too drying. But the whole is very nice, very natural but not ‘neutral’ at all. 85 points . MUSIC – Recommended listening - Just another new Astrud Gilberto? Certainly not! Brazilian born French resident (and singer) Bïa has his own, laidback way of singing bossa nova and it's totally beautiful! Try for instance Mon coeur est un vagabond.mp3 (my heart is a wanderer)... Superb, don't you think? And not that easy low-fi kind of bossa at all. Please buy Bïa's music! March 9, 2006 NEW – EXCLUSIVE MUSIC AND WHISKY INTERVIEWS Whiskyfun’s motto could be ‘fun, whisky and music go together’ and we often noticed that many excellent musicians enjoy good whisky indeed. That’s why we came up with this idea: asking artistes we like what they think about music and whisky, about their experiences, their projects etc. with a set of pre-formatted questions. Kind of a ‘music and whisky Chinese portrait’ if you like. We hope you’ll like this new rubric! Today, as a first, we interview the excellent English singer and songwriter PHIL DOLEMAN , whom guitarnoise.com called “Joe Jackson meets Richard Thompson” and the BBC… “The male Victoria Wood”! Whiskyfun: Phil, tell us briefly about what you do, music-wise. Phil Doleman: I’m a singer / songwriter / guitarist. I write, record and perform my own material as a solo acoustic act. I also play other instruments (bass, 5 string banjo, ukulele, mandolin, harmonica, whistle). WF: Which other musicians did you play with? Phil: In 2004 I became the banjo player for part-time band 4-4-2, who we
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