Caol Ila 1980 (Bottled 1993) Gordon & MacPhail / 40%/ 0.7l
- An expansion completed in 2011 made Caol Ila the largest distillery on the Isle of Islay with the capacity of 6.5 million liters of spirit per annum, more then Ardbeg, Laphroaig and Bowmore combined.
Product description
Caol Ila, the largest distillery on Islay, has the capacity to produce 6.5 million litres of spirit per year following an expansion completed in 2011, equivalent to the combined capacity of Laphroaig, Bowmore and Ardbeg.
The brand’s sales exceeded 600,000 bottles in 2016, but it still ranks far behind the most popular island whisky, Laphroaig (3.7 million bottles). Caol Ila has always enjoyed interest from independent publishers, who undoubtedly contribute to its growing popularity. The whisky presented here, distilled in 1980, was bottled by Gordon & MacPhail for Italian importer Giuseppe Meregalli in 1993.
Nose: peat smoke and sea salt, wet rocks and washed-up seaweed, green apples, lemons, clam juice, lapsang souchong tea, notes of pepper, damp hay and oak.
Palate : sea breeze, peat smoke, vanilla, white pepper, ginger, licorice, salted peanuts, green apples, grapefruit and toasted oak.
Finish: quite long, with notes of peat smoke, lemon peel, white pepper, sea salt, a touch of fennel and oak.