CAOL ILA DISTILLERY 32YO 1991 Hunter Laing Old & Rare Platinum at The Whisky Barrel – Scotch Whisky News


CAOL ILA DISTILLERY 32 Year Old 1991 Old & Rare Platinum (2023)
Single cask refill hogshead.Bottled October 2023 by Hunter Liang & Co. for the Old & Rare Collection. An intensely complex whisky from Islay. Expect peat smoke, lemon juice, seat salt and toffee flavours. Caol Ila 32 Year Old 1991 vintage Islay single malt Scotch whisky. Single cask refill hogshead bottled October 2023 by Hunter Laing & Co. for the Old & Rare Platinum series. 315 bottles. This pale-gold coloured whisky has an intense and complex nose with liquorice, sea-salt, peat smoke, leather and lemon juice. Pleasantly soft and sweet on the palate, with a chocolate and nutty quality overlaying the Islay peat influence, before leading into the toffee and citrus notes of the long, satisfying finish.
£511.50 / $533* / c$724* / €495
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.















