Caol Ila 1974 SV Vintage Collection - Miniature
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Caol Ila |
| Bottler | Signatory Vintage (SV) |
| Bottling Series | Vintage Collection - Miniature |
| Vintage | 1974 |
| Bottled Year | 1996 |
| Age | 19년 |
| Cask Type | Oak Cask |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 61.1% |
| Volume | 50 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
seawater, medicines, bandages, lemon juice and peat smoke. All brought together with brilliant precision and purity and with this same sense of 'weight' that was in the 1977, only here it feels even more distinct and powerful. I think power and control are the key words here. With water: green olives, fresh chopped herbs, lemongrass, gauze, pink sea salt, gorse and wet beach pebbles. Gathers a wonderful complexity that keeps evolving
restaurant Palate
hugely dense and smoky on arrival, but not acrid smoke, rather deeper, quilted, soft kiln smoke. Pure, silky peat smoke, black olive, natural tar, hay loft, farmyard notes, many medical embrocations, iodine, kelp and bonfire embers. Becomes increasingly tarry over time, quite immense! With water: stunningly oily now! The texture is just brilliant. The impression of peated olive oil, smoked limoncello (I know when I'm getting carried away because start using tasting notes for things that don't exist), pickled mussels and gherkins, natural tar and fir wood. Also many various wee ointments and these savoury qualities of Maggi, vegetable stock and soy sauce. Keeps evolving in completely compelling ways
timer Finish
long, extremely deep and broad. Salty, leathery and full of soft, thick peat smoke, brine, wood ashes, olive oil, tar and mineral oil
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