Caol Ila 1977 13 Year Old

Caol Ila 9 Year Old 2006 for MMM

MMM - short for Mark & Manny's Malts - launched their fourth and final bottling in the Animal Series. It was dubbed The Elephant because this Caol Ila truly is a mighty animal with its cask strength of 59,8% AB. Imanuel and I are quite happy with the discovery (and acquisition!) of this cask. You should have seen our faces when we first tried...

Score 86/100

Caol Ila 12 Year Old

The whisky I'm reviewing is from a 20cl bottle recently bought. If I could sum up this up in one word that word would be oily.I've never really understood the concept of an oily mouth feel but after drinking this now I do. On the nose I first got a sort of briney peatiness swiftly followed by toffee,caramel and a slight herbal note. On the palate...

Score 87/100

Caol Ila 7 Year Old 2012 Hinata The Stillman’s DE

I have no idea what Hinata means, nor am I familiar with the bottler The Stillman’s DE. It appears to be a German company and a relative newcomer. Hinata is, according to my teenage son, an important character in Naruto. In what? ‘Never mind, dad’. What I do know about this bottling is that it is a young, powerful Caol Ila that has matured on a...

Score 87/100

Caol Ila 18 Year Old 1996 Old Malt Cask Hunter Laing

Since the brothers Fred and Stuart Laing each went their own way – in which Fred kept the company Douglas Laing and brought his daughter Cara and son-in-low Chris Leggat on board and Stuart Laing started a new company Hunter Laing with his two sons – the Old Malst Cask belongs to the latter. The whisky under this banner is traditionally bottled at...

Score 86/100