Caol Ila reviews

This was a bottling by IB's James Eadie for Royal Mile Whiskies. 15 years old and finished for 13 months in a refill amontillado sherry cask made of European oak. No info. on the casks of the prior…

We had to wait a long time for it (honestly, I thought that the series was coming to an end with number 10, bottled in 2018), but here it is: the Smoking Buffalo 11, in honor of the 2022 Cup Final win…

Belgian bottler Klubb23 launched this young Caol Ila in the new series Fallen Angels, for the benefit of Plane Hunters Recovery Team vzw, an organization that is engaged in excavating and preserving WWII…

During Spirits in the Sky, the amazing whisky festival in Brussels organized by The Nectar, I participated in the Cadenhead's Warehouse Tasting where we could taste a number of cask samples from the…

High Spirits Dranken is a Dutch importer, which imports, among other things, the releases of relative newcomer Claxton's from Scotland. It is therefore not surprising that a release was bottled especi…

Casqueteers is a group of whisky lovers who regularly buy a cask that you can subscribe to (for example, I also have a few cask parts to my name and I wait patiently for bottling). The one that is now…

Wullie McMorland, the sympathetic Netherscot who has been running the well-known whisky restaurant The Hielander in Alkmaar since 1989 and was appointed Keeper of the Quaich in 2016, also organizes the…

In just a few years, Phil and Simon Thompson have emerged as bottlers of excellent single casks (in addition to their own distilling escapades with Dornoch Distillery, of course). This is one of them.…

A few weeks ago my whisky buddy Rainer sent me a message about this bottle. And whether he would be allowed to come by to have it tasted and whether I would like to make a Rambling about it? Yes & yes…

My favourite distillery on Islay is celebrating its 175th anniversary in style, with a 24-year-old release at cask strength. The 3,000 available bottles were sold out in the blink of an eye and I unfo…