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Caol Ila 14 Year Old Syndicate Bottling 1990
HED3557
70 cl
£136.40
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Caol Ila 14 Year Old Syndicate Bottling is an Islay single malt distilled in 1990 and matured in a refill hogshead. This expression was bottled for the `Syndicate 58/6` group, who specialise in selecting high-quality single casks from the distillery. The 14 years of maturation have resulted in a profile of smoked fish, lemon oil and coastal brine, with the refill wood ensuring the spirit character remains unmasked. On the palate, the liquid is oily and displays flavours of green apple and medicinal peat, with a distinctive mineral quality characteristic of early 1990s distillation.
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One of the largest distilleries on Islay, Caol Ila was founded on the north of the island, near Port Askaig, in 1846. The distillery water source is Loch Nam Ban providing water filtered through a combination of limestone and peat. Caol Ila produces nearly four million litres a year, mostly for premium blended whiskies like Johnnie Walker. Only around a twentieth of the production is bottled as a single malt.
While the house-style is a classic, peated Islay malt, Caol Ila have successfully experimented with unpeated whiskies over the years. The core range features a 12 year old and an 18 year old along with Moch, a lighter style of single malt that takes its name from the Garlic for 'dawn'.