Caol Ila 1974 SV The Prestonfield
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Caol Ila |
| Bottler | Signatory Vintage (SV) |
| Bottling Series | The Prestonfield |
| Vintage | 1974 |
| Bottled Year | 2002 |
| Age | 18년 |
| Cask Type | Oak Cask |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 43.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
what I’ve always enjoyed about the 18 is that is walks an entertaining tightrope between the younger, more chiselled style of Caol Ila, and these older, more elegant styles full of coastal complexity, medicine and citrus teas. This one leans more to the latter side of things, Green tea with lemon, soot, pine cones, roof pitch, chalk, wet beach pebbles, camphor and green olives. It’s gentle and settled with a kind if undulating medicinal quality and wafts of plain light peat smoke
restaurant Palate
superb opening on seawater, cooking oils, herbal teas, saline broths, umami paste, various shades of olive and medical tinctures. The texture is perhaps a tad on the light footed side, but the flavours are precise and rather beautiful. In time there’s hints of green pepper and nettle tea as well, some lemon rind too. Give it time and the power really starts to increase. Wonderful!
timer Finish
long, lemony, oily, heathery, medical and herbal
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