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This young Caol Ila is only six years old. It was distilled in the autumn of 2008 and bottled in the summer of 2014. It is a vatting of two bourbon casks. It was labeled ‘Young & Feisty’. I am sure i…

The Nectar of the Daily Drams is a well-known Belgian importer and bottler. Last year they launched this Caol Ila 1995 at cask strength. It is quite a pale animal.The classic traits of Caol Ila emerge…

The Un-Chillfiltered Collection from Signatory is always bottled without chill filtration (doh!) and at a drinking strength of 46%. Signatory married three casks for this release of 729 bottles. This…

I have to admit that until recently I had not even heard of this bottler: John McCrae & Co from Glasgow. They only have two casks on their resumé so far, both bottled in 2014 and both exclusively for the…

Old Malt Cask is a series from Douglas Laing (at least it used to be, nowadays it belongs to Hunter Laing) in which some exceptionally good, mostly older, malts are bottled at the golden drinking stre…

While it is not mentioned on the label, it is not really a secret that this is a young Caol Ila – my favorite Islay whisky! It was bottled especially for my favorite football team! In honor of the fact…

The reviewed sample was provided through the generosity of @Robert99. You are a prince, Robert. This bottle originated through the SAQ in Quebec Province, CanadaNose: right away I notise what appears to…

Auchentoshan Valinch is bottled at Cask Strength. No peat is used. For the reviewed sample I thank @Robert99Nose: intense medium pitched barley...and more barley; nice floral perfume. This is grassy with…

Between 1998 and 2004, Diageo released four different Rosebank bottlings in their 'Rare Malts' range. This review refers to the third release from 2002, bottle no. 5,637 of a 20-year old version. Sadly…

Last weekend I had the pleasure of tasting this again for the 1st time in almost two years… and oh my, I had forgotten just how much of a home run this malt is.Plenty has been said about this whisky –…