Caol Ila 2003 DL The Old Malt Cask - Cigar Malt

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Caol Ila
Bottler	Douglas Laing (DL)
Bottling Series	The Old Malt Cask - Cigar Malt
Vintage	2003
Bottled Year	-
Age	7년
Cask Type	Refill Hogshead
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	191
ABV	50.0%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Maritime

Smoky

Peaty

Oaky

Sweet

Spicy

Fruity

Vanilla

Chocolate

Honey

Herbal

Creamy

Dried Fruit

Floral

Nutty

Citrus

Tasting Notes

Colour

deep orangey gold

air Nose

we're in the same territory as the South Star bottling, not so much port, but a lot of active, rather modern style simmering and sweet wood spices, which works quite well with the smokiness here, going into that comfortable bacon crisps/pork scratchings territory with other things like smoked paprika, tar extracts, shoe polish and fir wood resins all in the mix. Good fun. With water: more scented now, on exotic hardwood resins, fir cones, juniper, chai tea and molasses

restaurant Palate

sweet, concentrated, peppery and with an oily, syrupy peat vibe going on. More leathery notes, black olives and black pepper. With water: a little funkier with water, more gamey, more winey and more earthy with strawberry wine, tobacco and bramble liqueur

timer Finish

quite long, tarry, sweetly peaty, peppery and with rather a lot of camphor and wood resins

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