Caol Ila 17-year-old JM Fine Malt Selection
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Caol Ila |
| Bottler | James MacArthur (JM) |
| Bottling Series | Fine Malt Selection |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | 17년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 43.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
white wine
air Nose
rounder and fruitier, with notes of, say, medicinal bananas? Old white wine? Typically old Caol Ila, probably subtler than today’s drops, and certainly less smoky. Some kind of jelly beans. It’s lovely, but it’s not ‘immediate’
restaurant Palate
so funny! And whacky! It’s big, extremely lemony and zesty, with some lemongrass, unripe gooseberries, then some hessian, graphite, a feeling of gravel… The whole’s a tad shaky, perhaps, less well-defined than modern bottlings, but it’s got some dazzling sparks of medicinalness (come on!) Almond oil and lemons, more hessian, a touch of chalk, some bitter herbs, peels and leaves… I’d have thought it would be an easy dram – it’s not
timer Finish
the hardest part. Everything got a little bitter, and unless you’re willing to intellectualise your whisky, it’s become difficult. All right, a little too bitter