Caol Ila 12 Year Old
oily and pleasant
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The whisky I'm reviewing is from a 20cl bottle recently bought. If I could sum up this up in one word that word would be oily.I've never really understood the concept of an oily mouth feel but after drinking this now I do. On the nose I first got a sort of briney peatiness swiftly followed by toffee,caramel and a slight herbal note. On the palate I got a sweet, creamy,briney peaty taste infused with lemon curd (a british preserve),lemon peel and sherbet lemons(candy) all wrapped up in a good olive oil. Very pleasant if a bit one dimensional. The finish is very long indeed. Quite gentle peat with white pepper with coastal notes still lingering. This is not a peat monster like Laphroaig 10 ,the praying levels are more muted,like a Talisker. It is nevertheless mostly enjoyable if not overly complex. It would be an excellent introduction to Islay malt whiskies.
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I find this to be a very enjoyable whisky, one of the few bottled at 43% that I would drink over a diet soda (unless I was just thirsty, then I'd have the soda).
But if you want this amped up a notch, see if you can get your hands on a bottle of the natural cask strength release (the one bottled at 58%, I believe). In my opinion this is an explosion of flavour in a dram.