C57's Whiskies - Caol Ila

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[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 Top
click image to enlarge	G&M Cask Series 1981 Age: NAS Vintage: 1981 Strength: 63.4% Bottler: Gordon and MacPhail Tasting Notes: Status: Unopened Top
click image to enlarge	Natural Cask Strength Age: NAS Strength: 59.3% Bottler: Distillery Tasting Notes: Status: 1 Unopened Top
click image to enlarge	Moch Age: NAS Strength: 43% Bottler: Distillery Tasting Notes: Status: Emptied 07.10.2011 Opened 14.09.2011 1 Unopened Top
click image to enlarge	Unpeated Age: 8 yo Vintage: 1998 Strength: 64.9% Bottler: Distillery Tasting Notes: Status: Unopened Top
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 Top
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 Top
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 Top
click image to enlarge	Premier Barrel 12 yo Age: 12 yo Strength: 46% Bottler: Douglas Laing Tasting Notes: Status: Unopened Top
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 Top
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 Top
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 Top
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 Top
click image to enlarge	W&M Barrel Selection 1991 Age: 14 yo Vintage: 1991 Strength: 46% Bottler: Wilson and Morgan Tasting Notes: Status: Unopened Top
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 Top
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) Top
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 Top
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 Top
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 Top
	Rare Malts 20 yo Age: 20 yo Vintage: 1975 Strength: 61.3% Tasting Notes: Status: Emptied Top
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 Top
click image to enlarge	Signatory 1976 Age: 23 yo Vintage: 1976 Strength: 56.7% Bottler: Signatory Tasting Notes: Status: Unopened Top
click image to enlarge	25 yo Age: 25 yo Vintage: 1979 Strength: 58.4% Bottler: Distillery Bottle # 3152 Tasting Notes: More here >> Status: Unopened Top
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 Top
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 Top