Caol Ila 9 Year Old

2013 Vintage SAMAROLI exclusive

We’re still feeling the love with Valentine’s Day on the horizon and this beautiful SAMAROLI Caol Ila Exclusive offer💕 Featuring Italian flair in the label design and description, this 9 year old Caol Ila was bottled exclusively for TWB by the world renowned bottler SAMAROLI.

“a beautiful synthesis of smoke and creaminess”

A single hogshead cask #315282 bottled at 45% that really brings out the balance between big bold peat smoke and zesty coastal Islay. Available only at TWB, for a not-to-be-missed deal.

Caol Ila 2013 – £60 / $60* / €56*

Caol Ila 9 Year Old 2013 vintage Islay single malt Scotch whisky. Single cask hogshead #315282 bottled 2022 by Samaroli for The Whisky Barrel 15th Anniversary. The label depicts The Lord of the Isles. A rare expression bottled by one of the world’s most renowned independent bottlers; Samaroli. 490 numbered bottles.

The nose opens with an intriguing notes of earth and musk which pierce through sensational, saline chorus.

The next voice we hear entices us with complex notes of soft vanilla and lifting fruitiness, a voice which sings ever louder on the palate.

An explosion of myrtle follows, alongside notes of juniper berries and a sweet, creamy bee-pollen character which melts the initial austerity away.

The sweet notes soften and smoothen the body of this whisky, and the smoky notes support the structure: a beautiful synthesis of smoke and creaminess.

Notes of heather swaying in a sea breeze caress the senses, helping us to lose ourselves in our imaginations, curled up on a beach next to a fire that slowly goes out.

Caol Ila Distillery is famous for the stunning view from its still house windows looking out across the Sound of Islay and for the objects which have passed by including naval battleships, submarines and whales. Caol Ila was established in 1846 by Hector Henderson on a sheltered but rocky stretch of coast on north east Islay. Now the largest malt whisky distillery on Islay it produces peated and some un-peated malt whisky with the distillery range including Caol Ila 12 year old and the Distiller’s Edition. Caol Ila participates in Feis Ile, the annual Islay Festival of Malt and Music.