Caol ila 1977 Map Label Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail

Caol Ila 1992/2014 Mc Crae's

Where it came from no one knows, but suddenly it was there. John McCrae’s co. single malt whiskies. Named in honour of the famous Canadian wartime poet, who wrote the famous ‘In Flanders Fields’ a century ago? That could well be the case, as it was exclusively bottled for the Belgian Market during the centennial of the Great War. Maybe it is just...

Score 87/100

Caol Ila 14 Year Old 1993 Silver Seal

This Caol Ila from Silver Seal came from a cask that yielded no less than 757 bottles. Surely, that must have been a sherry butt? The color does suggest this. I got this sample from the Festival of Independent Bottlers in Belgium last May. Oh, special nose. Blind, I would call this not Caol Ila, but rather Bunnahabhain. Sure, the ashes and...

Score 84/100

Caol Ila 12 Year Old

My second bottle of this 12 year old OB and whilst I didn't rate that last bottle here, I enjoyed it immensely and would have rated it high 80s ( I think I drank it, with the help of my Mum, in under a month). I picked this up recently and thought it would make a good peated whisky for the summer months. Review is neat. Nose - Herbal, slightly...

Score 86/100

Caol Ila 13 Year Old 2008 Hielander Whisky Festival

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 so-called Hielander Whisky Festival every year and that is invariably accompanied by a festival bottling. Wullie always makes sure that this...

Score 88/100