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Wilson & Morgan Caol Ila 15 Year Old Cask Strength (1990) Reviews
- Distillery
- Caol Ila
- Style
- Single Malt
- Release
- Distilled 1990
- Age
- 15 Years
- Alcohol
- 55% abv.
- Region
- Scotland, Highlands
- Bottled For
- Distillery
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A cask strength bottling of a 1990 distilled Islay malt, aged 15 years.
Wilson & Morgan Caol Ila 15 Year Old Cask Strength (1990)
Review by Eye-lah Guy
- Color
- Liquid gold in the glass
- Nose
- Delicate honey vanilla with charred oak undertones and iodine (Yes-this has spent all 12 years of it’s life on the salty, damp Islay coast and there’s no need to hide that fact)
- Body
- Medium, but serious as a heart attack
- Palate
- This exceptional malt seduces with a sultry sweet come-hither palate, which somehow insinuates itself just before the tip of your tongue meets the liquid, resembling Vermont Grade A Dark Amber as you swallow...
- Finish
- ...just before you’re ready to write it off as another trendy Islay that has bowed to Yankee pressure to “take the hospital taste out,” an attack of charred oak and smoky peat make a devastating one-two punch which obliterates the sweetness and sends you sprawling to the canvass in a dopey stupor
This is what I crave from my Islays, man, I need a knockout-something so intense and overwhelmingly complex at the same time I require a ten-count to prove I’m still worthy-yet I count the seconds until my next pull. So far, this mid-priced and exquisite dram has served up the most stunning one-two punch since the Skye Island Champion known as Talisker. May well join that regal rank along with Glenmorangie, Ardbeg and Lagavulin on my list of Divine Scotch Malts. A revelation at $54.
Wilson & Morgan Caol Ila 15 Year Old Cask Strength (1990)
Review by Colin
- Color
- Pale gold
- Nose
- Heavy sweet peat
- Body
- Dry and full
- Palate
- Perfect peat. Strong and well balanced. Anise seed sweet spiciness.
- Finish
- Very long and perfectly consistent. Truly amazing.
This is by far the best Islay I've ever drank. There is distinct character in the peat of this whisky which is perfectly complimented by its sweet spiciness. Just the nose alone is utter heaven. I found myself breathing it in with all my breath. The palate is perfectly consistent with the nose, as is the amazingly present finish. This whisky is perfect!