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Caol Ila 30 Year Old `Old and Rare` Hunter Laing 1980
HED2990
70 cl
£257.12
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Caol Ila 30 Year Old Old and Rare is an Islay single malt distilled in 1980 and bottled in 2011 at 54.3% ABV. Matured in a single hogshead, this expression captures the spirit at a three-decade milestone where the intense medicinal peat has evolved into a more integrated coastal character. The spirit exhibits a profile of old soot, beeswax, dried citrus and maritime brine. It was bottled by Hunter Laing, a firm that has consistently prioritised the preservation of high-age Islay stocks for the independent market.
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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'.