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Caol Ila 1999 43%
Caol Ila 1999 43%
Bottle Price: £35.00
Case Price: £399
- Country: Scotland
- Region: Islay
- Grape Variety:
- Alcohol: 46%
- Bottle Size: 70cl
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You can mix any 12 bottles of wine(or more) to get the ‘case price’ for each bottle.
10-year--old chill filtered Islay malt distillery near to Bunnahabhain with fantastic views over Jura. This is light in colour with a earthy, iodised malt, liquorice and menthol flavour and lovely sweet smoky peatiness.
Caol Ila 1999 10 year old -unchill filtered
Islay Scotland
The Signatory Vintage Scotch Whisky company is an independent scotch whisky bottler who started fifteen years ago with the purchase of a single barrel. From humble beginnings they have gone from from strength to strength, bottling some of the finest whisky in Scotland. Specialising in single barrel bottling from refined malt whisky producers they concentrate on individuality of flavour, finesse and quality.
The recent purchase of Edradour adds to their portfolio of quality and individual whisky. Edradour is Scotland's smallest distillery nestled in a pocket glen in the hills above Pitlochry producing only 12 casks of the 10 year old a week. Obviously this means that there is limited quantity and each of their bottles are numbered and dated.
The Island of Islay (pronounced 'Eye-la') is the southern most of the Western Isles, and lies on the eastern side of Kintyre. It is flat and green and very largely composed of peat - the water on the island is brown with it. Winter gales drive salt spray far inland, and this saturates the peat, which is dried again by the briny, seaweedy breeze. All these characteristics go into the whiskies of Islay, to a greater or lesser extent.
Coal lla ('Cal-eela'), although close to Bunnahabhain, produces a delicate, greenish malt, with some peat/iodine/salt balanced by floral notes and a peppery finish.
Islay whiskies generally reverse the characteristics of Speysides, tending to be dry and peaty; behind the smoke, however, can be gentle mossy scents, and some spice. The southern Islay distilleries produce powerfully phenolic whiskies, with aromas redolent of tar, smoke, iodine and carbolic. Bowmore, in the middle of the island, shares these characteristics but is not quite so powerful, as does Caol Ila. Bruichladdich and Bunnahabhain are lighter and much less smoky. All Islays have a dry finish, the southern ones with quite a bite.
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