Caol Ila

Tasting notes: Imagine if marzipan pelicans carried smoked sardines in their pouches.  You might see a bit of lagoon muck tracing a lipstick smile on the side of the beak, [...]

​Tasting notes: The nose on this dram is wild–and fruity. It smells like a fermenting mango improbably stuck inside a plum (it was a rather plump plum and using some [...]

Tasting notes: On the nose, we got honey aged in a burgundy cask, then put into a dragonfly wing chalice. The woodiness/resin note is so high register, it’s either from [...]

Tasting notes: The smokiest mouthwash ever released by Ralph Lauren, splashed on Mo Farah, Lolo Jones, and a cast of dozens, while they cavort around, dancing the dance of [...]

Tasting notes: There has been much attention over the discovery of a mummified monk inside a Buddha statue in a Dutch museum.  But is that any more wondrous than what [...]

Tasting notes: One of these things is not like the other.  Or so I’ve heard it said.   And surely here we have the black sheep, the outlier, the red-headed step child.  [...]