Whisky Reviews

    Douglas Laing Old Particular Cambus 35 Year Old, 51.5% ABV Nose: Thick oak spices, sweet presence of sugared and buttered popcorn. Wood glu...

    Caol Ila 20 yo 1995 Signatory Vintage, Straight From The Cask Nose: Moderately strong oak, lightly smoke, creamy berry, caramel, gentle sea ai...

  Among the latest crop of Hidden Spirits releases released locally to me was a 14yo Caol Ila single cask, bottled at a nice 53.7% ABV in 2022. T...

  Caol Ila 30yo, 1984-2014, Hunter Laing Old & Rare, 246 Bottles, 53.2% abv.Nose: red wine, light peat, sweet, vinegar, wax shows up later. W...

  Caol Ila 2001, Hermitage Wood Finish, b.2015, Gordon & MacPhail, Private Collection, 3600 bottles, 45% abv.Finished for 18 months in Hermit...

  Caol Ila 33, Edition 3, Hunter Laing The Kinship, 190/482, 52.6% abv.The Kinship series was started and selected by Jim McEwan to celebrate the...

  Fire Bringer, Caol Ila 9 years bottled 2015. Tomomi Kobayashi. Chosen by Shinanoya to commemorate the 25th anniversary of SaGa (video game). No...

  Caol Ila 10, 2006, Bottled for Club Qing, Hogshead no. 302870, 59/119, 50.8% abv.Club Qing is considered one of the top whisky bars in Hong Kon...

  Caol Ila, 1999-2011, The Whisky Trail, 43% abv.Ralfy finds it suspicious that it is being sold in 2018, suspects the bottling was lost in the p...

  Caol Ila 11, Signatory Vintage, The Un-Chillfiltered Collection, 2003-2015, Cask No's 302460 + 302463, Bottle No. 477, 46% abv.Nose: initially ...

  Caol Ila 15, 1966, Sestante import, Aquavitae, 65.3% abv.Bartender was telling me the Caol Ila distillery closed in the early 70s so the whisky...

  My first XOP. Quite hard to find, but it seems like Asia does get some allocation. As usual, had to overpay for these. One of the better IB lin...