Caol Ila 1976 SV Straight from the Cask

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Caol Ila
Bottler	Signatory Vintage (SV)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1976
Bottled Year	2001
Age	25년
Cask Type	-
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	59.9%
Volume	500 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Smoky

Peaty

Sweet

Spicy

Fruity

Dried Fruit

Vanilla

Oaky

Creamy

Maritime

Nutty

Honey

Floral

Herbal

Citrus

Chocolate

Tasting Notes

Colour

pale gold

air Nose

beautiful, bone-dry peat smoke and coastal freshness, very focussed on sea air, beach pebbles, sand, ink, rock pools etc. Also some green olives, dried seaweed, nori and very umami things like Maggi, squid ink and anchovy paste. With water: pristinely salty, briny, drying, coastal, superbly fresh and chiselled. On pink sea salt, crushed aspirin, seawater and olive tapenades

restaurant Palate

excellent arrival, recalls some of the great 1974s with this very oily and petrolic peat profile, while also looking ahead to the 1979s with hints of green tea with lemon, pure matcha and bone-dry smokiness. Probably a style that would inspire Serge to begin mentioning many expensive dry white wines… with water: gains some breadth of peat flavour, becoming a little thicker and deeper with black pepper, smoked olive oil, peppered and smoked mackerels, sardines in oil, pure tar and mercurochrome. Whoever said Caol Ila was a ‘medium’ peated Islay?

timer Finish

wonderfully long, with a brittle, crystalline peat smoke, also more tar, wood ashes, TCP, smoked beers and many more softer coastal impressions that retain freshness

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