Tastes

The nose is sort of dark fruity, vanilla and malt/grain funk in a good way. Mouth is quite viscous and has a vanilla sweetness with more of the fruity funky flavors promised by the nose. Finishes with a pleasant lingering sweet, oaky and peppery tingle in the mouth. All in all a really nice experience, especially at the low price point. Positively surprised by this blend and wouldn’t hesitate to pick this up in the future.

My first real venture into whisky on a recommendation from a friend back in 2013, it set me out on a great journey!

Finishing the sampler pack was this 18 year old. It has a quite sweet vanilla and some dark fruity nose with hints of peat perhaps. The mouth is sweet with small hints of anise and some alsmost some dark funky honey to it with peat and very spicy cinnamon/chili spice. Afterstate is a contiunation of this intense cinnamon come chili spice.

A bit suprisingly to myself, Caol Ila has become one of my favorite distilleries on Islay. Opened this 2019 Distillers edition yesterday and I am enjoying it a lot! The nose is quite muted but with sweet peaty smoke promising something interesting. The mouth is sweet, smokey oily and quite spicy prickling on the tounge. A long aftertaste that is spice and peat turning vanilla and anise. Yum!

This 15 year old is as of writing the review $47 in the Swedish monopoly, which is a very low price. On the nose it is vanilla sweet with maybe some smoke and honey. The taste is sweet vanilla, honey and some peat which turns into anise and and quite intense oak and pepper. The aftertaste intensifies the oak and has some more of the anise, honey and smoke. This was from a sampler pack, might have to pick up a regular bottle while the price is this good, so far the whole sampler pack has been a pleasant suprise.

Very smoke forward, crazy amounts of smoke! It was a great experience, I wish I’d picked up a second bottle when I had the chance.

It had medium peat kick to it when it was just opened, but now it is too sweet for my liking. It feels somewhat similar to the peated Irish whisky Connemara.

Yum!

This is a complex and thoroughly enjoyable whisky which is quite unique in its profile. Warmly recommended!

A really refined and nice whisky with a lot of sherry and cinnamon spiciness. The bottle has been opened for a couple of months and it just keeps getting better. Bumping this up to 4.75!