Caol Ila 1965 GM Connoisseurs Choice
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Caol Ila |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | Connoisseurs Choice |
| Vintage | 1965 |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | 20년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 40.0% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | Brown label |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Brown label
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
amber with orange hues
air Nose
delicate like a very old Sauternes. Only hints but superb hints of anthracite, wet earth, fir honeydew and trappist beer. Then it gets more on apricot juice, light honey, mullein flowers. Hints of overripe apples, toffee, caramel crème, cappuccino… And the peat? It’s well here, subtle, delicate… Marvellous old Caol Ila, if only they had bottled it at a slightly higher strength…
restaurant Palate
excellent attack on baked apples, mead and soft pepper. Not weak at all I must say. Apricot pie, crystallised oranges, toasted brioche, white pepper. Very nice notes of smoked salmon
timer Finish
quite long! Toasted, peaty, with quite some dried figs… A tad drying, ‘of course’. A poem, quite moving. 91 points . Caol Ila 20 yo (40%, Sestante, ‘red lettering’, 1980's)
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