Caol Ila 1994 GM Connoisseurs Choice
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Caol Ila |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | Connoisseurs Choice |
| Vintage | 1994 |
| Bottled Year | 2024 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | 1st Fill Sherry Butt |
| Cask Number | 12431 |
| Bottles Released | 532 |
| ABV | 40.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
white wine
air Nose
much cleaner and fresher, but also a little simpler than the W&M. Smoke, cooked apple, matchstick, bonfire, oatcake… A nice everyday smoky Islayer watery but clean, pure and fresh. Quite nice! Huge whiffs of smoke but not much else, I’m afraid
restaurant Palate
more austere, and more compact than the W&M. Certainly smokier, with lots of white pepper, apple juice, freshly cut pear, camphor. Medium long finish, on peated malt. Not too complex, I’d say, but nicely compact and ‘pure’, whatever that means. Again, a perfect hipflask malt, worth no less than 85 points in my book. Caol Ila 1994/2003 (40%, G&M for Meregali, Italy) really a straight shooter. Peat, smoke, fresh water, that’s all. The finish is quite long but a little spirity and bitter. 78 points . Caol Ila 25 yo 1979 (41.7%, Jack Wiebers Auld Distillers Collection) This one is quite rounded but smoky – ‘molto torbato’, with lots of fruits. Nice depth. The mouth is smoky and very satisfying, but gets perhaps a little too sweetish. Still a very nice old Caol Ila. 85 points . Caol Ila 17 yo 1986/2004 (56.2%, Douglas Laing for Whiskyship 2004, 297 bottles)
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