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Caol Ila 20 Year Old 150th Anniversary
HED8243
70 cl
57.86%
£1,232.60
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Caol Ila 20 Year Old 150th Anniversary is an Islay single malt bottled in 1996 to celebrate a century and a half of the distillery`s operation. This expression was matured in a combination of refill American and European oak casks and bottled at a natural cask strength of 58.08%. The 20 years of maturation have refined the medicinal smoke into a more integrated profile of honeyed malt and wood ash. On the palate, the high alcohol content carries concentrated flavours of lemon oil, charred embers and iodine, with the oak providing a firm, structural framework.
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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'.