Caol Ila 12 YO

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As i had the oppor­tu­nity to have my good friends here for a three din­ner dishes we tried some good whisky brought to my house by the owner of this site

We tried 5 dif­fer­ent whisky
Of the 5 expres­sions in this tast­ing, this is the most rounded and bal­anced whisky

On the nose, there’s lemon cit­rus, sweet peat, and smoke. The smoke isn’t all that strong, though.
This is a pleas­ant nose, and rel­a­tively “light” com­pared to Ard­beg, Laphroaig and Lagavulin.

On the palate, BANG…that peat and smoke come through much stronger. Then a wave of pep­per takes hold. The pep­per lingers into the fin­ish, and the smoke keeps build­ing into a strong coal smoke chim­ney com­ing up through the nos­trils. Excel­lent and a new favour of mine

I tasted this with my friends this week­end. We usu­ally meet up and have a great three course din­ner. This was no excep­tion. As the din­ner started quite late this time we tried some new whiskies after the starter which was a chili salad! I won­dered how this would end but the salad had a mild taste. We did a tast­ing of

* Caol Ila 12 YO
* Clynel­ish 14YO
* Talisker 10YO
* Dal­more Macken­zie 17YO
* Glen­fid­dish 12 YO

The tast­ing notes for the other whiskies can be found on the cor­re­spond­ing pages. This whisky was the sec­ond whisky we tasted.

Nose
Had a lot of smoke and vanilla.

Tongue
Quite round, oily, burnt and smoke. Like the oily­ness which cre­ates a ‘wide’ taste.

Fin­ish
The fin­ish is long and smoky, I also tasted some rowan­berry, any­one else tasted the same?

A whiskey that is a bit smoky, tarry, rich and oily. Yes, I like this sharp, but it is a bit short fin­ish. Per­fect after a good din­ner. Strongly recommended.