Caol Ila 1996 HB Finest Collection

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Caol Ila
Bottler	Hart Brothers (HB)
Bottling Series	Finest Collection
Vintage	1996
Bottled Year	2008
Age	10년
Cask Type	-
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	46.0%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Smoky

Peaty

Maritime

Vanilla

Oaky

Sweet

Spicy

Fruity

Herbal

Creamy

Honey

Chocolate

Dried Fruit

Floral

Nutty

Citrus

Tasting Notes

Colour

white wine

air Nose

extremely close to the Cadenhead’s in style, only a little more austere and flinty at first nosing, and then a little farmier (cow stable). Once again, there’s a lot of lemon and porridge, and no real peat blast when at cask strength. With water: it’s now that this one really overtakes the Cadenhead and the others, as it gets crisper, cleaner, smokier and simply peatier. Nice farmy notes (wet sheep, hay.) Okay, not a revelation but it’s a nice Ardbeg

restaurant Palate

once again, we’re close to the Cadenhead’s but this one is rather more expressive, sort of better composed, with the holy trinity well in place (peat, lemon, pepper). Good balance despite the relative ‘brutality’. With water: once again, this is flawless and most quaffable at roughly 45% vol. Good stuff, reminding me a bit of the Airigh Nam Beist (I got the name correct, didn’t I!!)

timer Finish

long, clean, with just enough of all worthy Arbbeggian ingredients (no need to list them)

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