-smelled lightly peaty with leather and grass
-with cheese the smokiness increased
-less peppery
-with water - peat and smoke with an earthly smell
-tasted sweet bread/pastry and peat sour
The cheese really smoothed this whisky out.
*Caol Ila 25yr Bourbon Cask -Shropshire Blue Cheese
-smelled a tinge of peat with soft candy like taffy
-still a grassy scent
-tasted butter cookie and peat
-with cheese - sweet cookie that trailed to pepper
-with water - smelled light grass
-tasted a tinge rubbery with very little peat
-went quickly to peppery oak
*Caol Ila MOCH (Dawn in Gaelic) NAS Bourbon Cask - Chocolate w/Lemongrass
-smelled oaky with peat and band aid
-tasted sweet on the tongue, tasted bread
-citrusy with slight floral tones
-with chocolate tasted lemony with pepper
-with water - less citrus and more grass
*Caol Ila Cask Strength 2013 15yr - Chocolate, Salted Caramel
(Bourbon 12yrs/Muscatel wine 6 mnths/Bourbon 2.5yrs)
-smelled cherry syrup with a tinge of peat
-tasted dry wine fruity
-trailed to pepper oak quickly!
-with chocolate - creamy vanilla and cherry
-ended peaty
-with water - smelled peat and grass
-tasted cherry filled chocolate
-trailed to peat and oak
The chocolate and the water sweetened this one up quite a bit.
*Caol Ila 15yr Unpeated Cask Strength 2014
-smelled vanilla sweet with some oak
-tasted peppery oak with sweet vanilla in the middle
-trailed oak
-with water smelled citrusy, lemon bar
-tasted peppery citrus
-had a dryness like wine
-trailed very quickly to oak