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The Caol Ila distillery dates from 1846, at least the warehouse of this Islay distillery, because the distillery itself was completely rebuilt and enlarged in the early 1970s. Where Caol Ila was 'self-malting' until the renovation, the distillery then used malt from Port Ellen Maltings, also located on Islay. Some connoisseurs see a separation here between the heavier 'old' and the 'lighter' new Caol Ila.
Although the distillery produces quite a few single malt whisky bottlings, most of the malt goes to the Johnnie Walker blends. Remarkably, the single malt for the blends is not peated, while Caol Ila is known as the maker of smoky Islay whisky. By the way, there are a few bottlings of that unpeated version.
A nice example of the distillery character, this 12-year-old Caol Ila. Tough and yet subtle, and nicely balanced with the smoke and peat notes typical of Caol Ila. A good and affordable entry into the world of 'peated' Islay whisky.
This Caol Ila bottling in the Discovery series by Gordon & MacPhail has aged for 13 years in clearly active bourbon casks. In this Islay single malt whisky you will find notes of vanilla, caramel, fruit and leather, and salty peat smoke and iodine.
In 2019, The Whisky Jury released 90 bottles of Caol Ila single malt whisky. And what bottles! The classic Islay malt had matured for 35 (!) years in a bourbon cask before being bottled at 50.3% cask strength. It has now scored 90.6 points!
In 2025, bottler Signatory Vintage released this 17-year-old Caol Ila in their Cask Strength Collection. This classic, medium-peated Islay single malt whisky matured in a first-fill Oloroso sherry cask. 673 bottles were released at a strength of 57.8%.
This Caol Ila single malt whisky matured for 16 years, the last two years of which in a 1st-fill Oloroso sherry cask. This is clearly visible in the colour. Bottler Van Wees, therefore, released the malt in the series The Ultimate-Sherry Cask Finish. 46%
In honor of Dutchman Han van Wees's 60th anniversary in the whisky trade (think of The Ultimate whisky bottlings), Gordon & MacPhail released this 14-year-old Caol Ila single malt whisky. The peated Islay malt matured in a first-fill sherry cask. (52.8%)
Considering its age of 6-7 years, this Caol Ila is surprisingly complex, full-bodied, and oily. This medium-peated Islay single malt matured in a large sherry cask before being bottled by the Belgian Asta Morris in 2018 at a cask strength of 56.1% ABV.
Just like the year before, bottler Asta Morris released a 7-year-old Caol Ila single malt whisky in 2019, matured in a sherry cask. This edition, too, is a complex, creamy, full-bodied, and beautifully balanced sherried dram. (55.9%)
The whiskies in Decadent Drinks' Equinox & Solstice series are always bottled at the easy drinking strength of 48.5%. That goes also for this Autumn Edition, a Caol Ila single malt whisky that matured for 11 years in an Oloroso European oak cask.
For a few years now, Signatory Vintage has been offering the 100 Proof series. This sherried Scotch whisky series excels due to its excellent price-quality ratio. A fine example is this Caol Ila single malt, matured in bourbon and Oloroso casks. (57.1%)
The eighth Caol Ila bottling in Elixir Distillers’ Elements of Islay series was released in 2017. The single malt whisky was matured in five bourbon casks and bottled at 55.2% cask strength. It has received a score of about 86 points on Whiskybase so far.
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