Collector57's Whisky Collection  
 
[u][b]THIS[/b][/u]
Caol Ila
   

click image to enlarge

Sound of Islay

Age: NAS

Vintage: 1998

Strength: 40%

Bottler: Cambridge Wine Co

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Emptied 23.07.2010

Opened 19.06.2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

G&M Cask Series 1981

Age: NAS

Vintage: 1981

Strength: 63.4%

Bottler: Gordon and MacPhail

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Unopened

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

Natural Cask Strength

Age: NAS

Strength: 59.3%

Bottler: Distillery

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: 1 Unopened

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

Moch

Age: NAS

Strength: 43%

Bottler: Distillery

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Emptied 07.10.2011

Opened 14.09.2011

1 Unopened

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

Unpeated

Age: 8 yo

Vintage: 1998

Strength: 64.9%

Bottler: Distillery

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Unopened

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

SMWS 53.87 'Clean sheep and smoked ham'

Age: 11 yo

Vintage: 1993

Strength: 61%

Bottler: Scotch Malt Whisky Society

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Unopened

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

1995 Distillers Edition

Age: 12

Vintage: 1995

Strength: 43%

Bottler: Distillery

Tastimg notes:

 

Status: Emptied 11.05.2011

1 Open (04.03.2011)

Emptied 23.02.2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

12 yo

Age: 12 yo

Strength: 43%

Bottler: Distillery

Tasting Notes:

n: slightly phenolic - elastoplast; some wood smoke too; grass cuttings (old ones beginning to rot down very slightly)

t: smooth and oily. Smokey. Salty - mackerel? Kippers maybe.

f: long and warming, still with the smoke.

Smoke goes right through this malt as does the marine character. 2 or three minutes later I'm now getting a fishy and spicy finish

More here >>

Status: Emptied 10.01.2011

1 opened 20.11.2010

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

Premier Barrel 12 yo

Age: 12 yo

Strength: 46%

Bottler: Douglas Laing

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Unopened

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

G&M Private Collection

Age: 12 yo

Vintage: 1988

Strength: 40%

Bottler: Gordon and MacPhail

Cask: Claret

Cask # 97/307 3,4

Bottle # 0231/2100

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Unopened

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

Chieftain's 12 yo

Age: 12 yo

Vintage: 1992

Strength: 50%

Bottler: Ian Macleod and Co

Distilled: Apr 1992

Bottled: May 2004

Cask # : 90201-90204

Cask: Medoc

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Unopened

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

Signatory Unchillfiltered 1990

Age: 13 yo

Vintage: 1990

Strength: 46%

Bottler: Signatory

Cask # 13956

Bottle # 382/786

Distilled: 27.10.1990

Bottled: 11.10.2004

Tasting Notes:

N: Wood smoke and peat smoke. A fruitiness underneath I think. A sort of soot aroma in the smoke

P: Peat bursts on the toungue, then mellows out. Becomes more peat smoke and less wood smoke that the nose would suggest. No soot in the palate. Slightly salty behind all that smoke.
After a while a slight dry licquorice comes in (rather like Liquorice Imps, if ou remember them)

F: Not as long as the intensity of the node and palate would suggest.
The Liquorice Imps are back!

Comment: Yum yum yum. Very nice Caol Ila

Status: Emptied (18.09.2010)

Opened 26.06.2010

 

click image to enlarge

Signatory Unchillfiltered 1990

Age: 14 yo

Vintage: 1990

Strength: 46%

Bottler: Signatory

Cask # 04/843/2+3

Bottle # 280/789

Distilled: 25.07.1990

Bottled: 08.12.2004

Tasting Notes: None

Status: Unopened

Comment: Same series as 13yo above

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

W&M Barrel Selection 1991

Age: 14 yo

Vintage: 1991

Strength: 46%

Bottler: Wilson and Morgan

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Unopened

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

Connoisseur's Choice 1981

Age: 16 yo

Vintage: 1981

Strength: 40%

Bottler: Gordon and MacPhail

Tasting Notes:

N: weaker smoke than the 12 ob,but sweeter with (strange this) faint banoffee pie behind it!!

P : now the smoke comes through. Peat smoke and wood smoke too. Some stewed fruits that I can't identify.

F : longish and sweet/smokey
Slight fish and maritime character

 

Status: Emptied

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

Coopers Choice 1991

Age: 16 yo

Vintage: 1991

Strength: 46%

Bottler: Vintage Malt Whisky Co

Tasting Notes:

N: Nice tarry smoke - a good Caol Ila nose with a fruity peat and in this case a trace of sherry (at least it has the characteristics of a sherry nose)

P Lots of peaty smoke and smoked fish. A touch of salt and seaweed. Full and robust yet smooth too and it sweetens out in the mouth after a half minute or so.

F: Everlasting, creosote and salted fish. Peat, peat and more peat

C: Another excellent bottle from VMW. If this had been selected by a Diageo manager (assuming he would have found such a good cask) no doubt it would have cost me £300, because it is so expensive to hand-pick and bottle a single cask

Quite how VMW do it for a retail price of £35 I don't know. Presumably the managers at VMW aren't as highly paid as Diageo managers (yes I know this is 46% and Diageo Managers Choice are CS, but there's not that much water added...)

Status: Emptied (10.05.2010)

Open (04.01.2010)

 

 

click image to enlarge

Port Askaig

Age: 17yo

Strength: 45.8%

Bottler: TWE

Tasting notes: none

Status: 1 Unopened

Emptied 19.12.2010

Opened 25.10.2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

18 yo

Age: 18 yo

Strength: 43%

Bottler: Distillery

Tasting Notes: Sour

More here >>

Comment: Not one I'll be buying again in a hurry

Status: Emptied 23.04.2011

Opened 20.11.2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

SMWS 53.37

Age: 18 yo

Vintage: 1980

Strength: 61.1%

Bottler: Scotch Malt Whisky Society

Tasting Notes:


N : old bookshops with a bonfire outside.

P : sweet with a dash of lemon, A trace of fudge but the alcohol cuts everything. A drop of water eases that and sweetens it further.

F : not long, but bitterness starts to come in now. \smoke and seaweed are there too

 

Status: Emptied

 

 

 

Rare Malts 20 yo

Age: 20 yo

Vintage: 1975

Strength: 61.3%

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Emptied

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

SMWS 53.70

Age: 20 yo

Vintage: 1983

Strength: 57.9%

Bottler: Scotch Malt Whisky Society

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Emptied 14.05.2010

Opened 26.02.2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

Signatory 1976

Age: 23 yo

Vintage: 1976

Strength: 56.7%

Bottler: Signatory

Tasting Notes:

 

Status: Unopened

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

25 yo

Age: 25 yo

Vintage: 1979

Strength: 58.4%

Bottler: Distillery

Bottle # 3152

Tasting Notes:

More here >>

Status: Unopened

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

SMWS 53.93 'Free spirit'

Age: 25 yo

Vintage: 1980

Strength: 55.4%

Bottler: Scotch Malt Whisky Society

Tasting Notes:

n: Grass yes (as per Gordon), spearmint leaves, fruit but not identified.

t: oily again (a theme on CI), the antiseptic Gordon refers to is TCP pastilles. Again quite sweet but much more smoke (peat) on the palate than on the nose

f: Long. Spearmint and smoke still there

More here >>

Status: Emptied

 

 

 

click image to enlarge

30 yo Bladnoch Forum

Age: 30 yo

Vintage: 1980

Strength: 52.6%

Bottler: Bladnoch Distillery

Cask: 4685

Bottle: 54

Tasting notes:

N: Rather musty but with gentle peat, some toffee and behind the mustiness some lemon I think. Unfortunately the mustiness spoils it

P: Better than the nose with the lemon more prominent, fresh wood shavings and some very mellow peat. The mustiness is much less than on the nose.

F: Quite a zing on the finish, which is looong. Yes, Willie, I can see where you get kippers, An interesting finish, where the musty flavour has now entirely gone.

Surprisingly fresh finish for what is clearly a cask past its best.

Status: Emptied 02.09.2011

Opened 26.02.2011