Caol Ila 18 year old Islay Jazz Festival2025 "The Guitarist" 70cl / 52.8%abv (948 bottles)
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Caol Ila 18 year old Islay Jazz Festival2025 “The Guitarist” 70cl / 52.8%abv (948 bottles)

£225.00

This year the Islay Jazz Festival release is an 18 Year Old from Caol Ila named ‘The Guitarist’. This special limited edition bottling is the distillery’s first first-ever Jazz Festival release.An 18 year old matured in American oak before a finish in rare Scottish oak cask ends. There’s layers of great sweet flavour intertwined with a bold peppery smokiness. Toffee apple and cinnamon appear alongside a subtle coastal influence.One of an outturn of 948 bottles.

Caol Ila Distillery teams up with Islay celebrated jazz festival for the first time, launching an exclusive 18-year-old single malt to commemorate the partnership.The “Sound of Islay” distillery will host performances by acclaimed Scottish musicians, including pianist Fergus McCreadie and neo-soul vocalist Gaïa, during the three-day September event. The festival marks its 27th year with this new collaboration, bringing together music and whisky enthusiasts at one of Scotland’s most atmospheric coastal venues.

 

Bottle Information

Distillery: Caol Ila

Age: 18 year old

Region: Islay

ABV: 52.8%

Bottle size: 70cl

 

Tasting Notes

Nose:  A vibrant sympony of coastal peat smoke mingles with notes of red berries and cocoa. Delicate notes of apple blossom balanced by aromatic spices.

Palate:  The first sip dances across the tongue with sweet confectionary fruit notes and a bold rythmic peppery smokiness. Interplay of toffee apple and cinnamon while the saling peat remaims chrisp like a smooth baseline.

Finish:  Lingering with a gentle fade of smouldering ember and touch of minerals. Hints of pepper and aromatic cloves resonate long after the last note

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Caol Ila 18 year old Islay Jazz Festival2025 “The Guitarist” 70cl / 52.8%abv (948 bottles)

Caol Ila Distillery.

Caol Ila is derived from Gaelic Caol Ìle for “Sound of Islay” (lit. “Islay Strait”) in reference to the distillery’s location overlooking the strait between Islay and Jura. It was founded in 1846 by Hector Henderson. The distillery did not fare well, and changed hands in 1854 when Norman Buchanan, owner of the Isle of Jura Distillery, took over. In 1863 the business was acquired by Bulloch Lade & Co, of Glasgow, traders in whisky stocks. According to the 1871 census, Duncan Johnston was the Distillery Manager at the time. Duncan was the nephew of John Johnston of Lagavulin and cousin to the Laphroaig Johnstons and so the family were involved with yet another distillery on the island. By the 1880s over 147,000 imperial gallons (670,000 L) of whisky were produced there each year.

In 1920 Bulloch Lade went into voluntary liquidation, and a consortium of businessmen formed the Caol Ila Distillery Company Ltd. In 1927 the Distillers Company acquired a controlling interest in Caol Ila, and in 1930 Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd obtained ownership of all the shares. The distillery closed during World War II, from 1942 to 1945, because of wartime restrictions on the supply of barley to distillers. From then, production continued until 1972, when the entire structure of the distillery was demolished. A larger distillery was then built, designed by George Leslie Darge in the same architectural style as many of his others with his trademark glazed curtain walls to the still houses, and production resumed in 1974. The company eventually became part of Diageo.

Additional information

Weight 2 kg
Dimensions 15 × 14 × 45 cm
Whisky Type

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