Adelphi Caol Ila 11 Years Old

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 6 by Michael Jackson and Jim Murray.

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Tasting Notes

Michael Jackson Nose Very light for this distillery. Sweetness and pepper. Seaweed. Palate Oily, lightly malty, sweetish. Finish Light pepper. Comment A curiously insipid bottling.

Jim Murray Nose Slightly astringent and lower peated than one might expect. Remains fresh, but a little green and a tad feinty. Palate Big and cumbersome on the palate with most extraordinary malty, gristy sweetness. Quite brawny. Finish Long and oily with some drier, almost bitter almond notes. Comment About as subtle as a Peckinpah film and about as violent on the palate, too. Monster stuff.