Caol Ila 1974 W&W

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Caol Ila
Bottler	Whyte & Whyte Importers Ltd. (W&W)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	1974
Bottled Year	-
Age	19년
Cask Type	Oak
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	61.1%
Volume	750 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islay

Flavor Profile

Smoky

Peaty

Sweet

Oaky

Maritime

Fruity

Spicy

Vanilla

Creamy

Dried Fruit

Honey

Nutty

Herbal

Floral

Citrus

Chocolate

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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