Caol Ila 1980 SV Vintage Collection

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Caol Ila
Bottler	Signatory Vintage (SV)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1980
Bottled Year	1993
Age	18년
Cask Type	Oak Cask
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	43.0%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Smoky

Peaty

Oaky

Fruity

Vanilla

Sweet

Honey

Floral

Spicy

Maritime

Creamy

Dried Fruit

Herbal

Nutty

Citrus

Chocolate

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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