whisky review 556 - Caol Ila 18yo single malt
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- . . . sipping this malt is like catching up with an old friend from many years acquaintance.
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Just going over some older reviews. This is one of the most memorable for me. Just bought the 18 year old myself and now you've challenged me to get the Gordon & MacPhail. Life good when you love the things you do!! Thanks again!!
Can you give us a tour of the Manx bothy outside and inside? Would be neat to see.
+Polyfusia I second this, I am always SO curious about the location you film at.
I'll third this
Ralfy is not only an amazing reviewer, but any amazing person altogether. When I first found the Ralfystuff channel, I couldn't stand the taste of whisky period, now, I look forward to the quiet and relaxing weekend moment when I can kick back with a dram of some good single malt and listen to Ralfy do his thing.
I can really see you in your malt moment there at the end, truly a pleasure Ralfy. Always enjoy having a drop with ya.
No Caol ila here, but i did add some highland park 12 to my bunnahabhain 12 to get some smoke in there, and it is not because i miss smoking, but is because i really like scotch with a bit of smoke note to it. i really appreciate learning here that 1st fill can diminish peatiness moreso than 2nd/3rd fill. It's so great to learn more and more about scotch, beyond the scotch that Ralfy reviews, in each and every video he uploads. Tkx Ralfy!
I'm just starting my malt adventures and I just wanted to say...thank you ralphy! I've been watching your videos on how to nose, taste, what to start with, what glasses to use, and even the ones on blending whiskey yourself. Your videos have been so amazing and for that i thank you.
+Zachary Wagganer . . . happy to help with the malt-moments.
Just discovered Single Malts on a recent trip to Scotland, during a tasting at Tallisker on Skye. I found I appreciate those from Islay best. Caol Ila 12 being my first purchased. Wonderfully complex is whiskey. I discovered your reviews last evening and want to thank you Ralfy for furthering my education on all things regarding whiskey!
Another great review Ralfy. What a great idea to combine the two Whiskies. Keep up the good work see you next week.
Thanks so much for taking the time Ralfy to review these for us, I haven't heard of a few of them. Always a pleasure to see new vids =)
Am on my way to a tasting! Thought I drop a malt mention and say hello from the seabottom of Flevoland in Holland
The stores in my state finally got the 18. I hope it still measures up. Happy New Year! I'm buying one today.
Surprise, surprise! The web site they had Caol Ila 18 - no other details. I get to the store and there's none on the shelf. They go out back and return with a case. They give me one and I pay for it and go home. Then I see it is cask strength and then I see it's the 2017 version of the Un-Peated Caol Ila. Still good but not what I was expecting.
A number of years ago I compared the Caol Ila 12 YO with the 18 YO side by side and concluded that I preferred the more briny/peaty 12 YO. The 18 YO had the same character profile but brininess was more subdued and the sweet citrus lemon more pronounced. There was also a lot more honey sweetness in the 18 YO.As I said, it's been some time since I tried the 18 YO and it's time to give it another try. On the other hand, the purchase of a Cask Strength independant bottling sounds tempting as well.
What a great video. One of my favorites so far this year. Really enjoyed watching the blending!
so cool, i love blanding my malts! it's fun and interresing keek uppung your and owr whisky game ralfy
I've done my own blending for awhile,sometimes just to save space with the not- so nice malts, and have come up with some pretty good results. about two years ago i started taking a half a dram of every bottle i opened and putting them in a bottle, it now has about 30 different malts mulling about. someday i might have my own century malt, if i live long enough.
Had never thought of mixing malts until you mentioned it. Added Black Grouse to ordinary Grouse with similar effect to a shot of Redex in the tank of my old Triumph Speed Twin.
Another nice review Ralfy, I'd love to see a review of Glenmorangie Signet sometime... If it's available where you are.
This is the first time I'm actually trying the whiskey while watching your review. Must do this more often.
James Potts You liked it?
Love your reviews!!! Hope you keep doing them Mr. Malty Manic Mashbill marauding malt marking malt master. Keep it fun, passionate and malty!
ralfy i recently stumbled upon your whisky reviews around 3/4 months ago. I have to say i am hooked on your videos and find myself watching them in my spare time. While i disagree with you on some taste notes on the vast majority i agree with you and deeply respect your reviews and opinions. Now i have a question for you i have seen your videos explaining some whiskey on a budget ect ect (my opinion is 20cl bottles are wonderful on a budget but not enough companies sell them) but please could you explain where you find bargains and how a whisky auction works and where to find them i would much appreciate this. Thank you ralfy for your service to the whisky community keep up the good work :)
Great details about cask influence on phenolic peatiness.
Interesting, I have always enjoyed blending different malts together and recently made a fine discovery, I had bought a bottle of Glenfarclas 105 as previously I had very much enjoyed a Ralphy recommended Glenfarclas 15 yr old, the 105 though, while still having the characteristics of the previous bottle, seemed younger and more brittle in taste (105 being NAS anyway)
So I tried it with a couple of others and it sort of worked, but lastly, I had a little Old Pultney left, adding about a third as much again of the OP to the 105 and leaving it for 15 minutes was a revelation, the slight saltiness of the OP not only brought the full flavour of the 105 out, it's own 12yr old influence greatly mellowed the cask strength 105's brittle flavour and brought it back into the classic Speyside caramel family of flavours, a little water sweetened the experience further still. A great Vid Ralphy, it was great to watch, and you who started me on the blending some time back when you suggested adding a drop or two of Ardbeg to a mediocre whiskey to lift it's spirits, advice I have followed on several occasions, mediocre or not, to great effect as well.
Cheers!
+MrKapeji Good stuff. Just wanted to mention that 105 wasn't always and still may not be NAS. All I have ever seen is 10yo. That info is just hidden on the back label. Ralfy discovered this after also saying it was NAS in review 508.
Hi conradbw, I had a look all over the bottle and the box, but I could find no reference to any age, so maybe it is now NAS. Thanks for the comment! :)
Also chuffed with this review I'm looking to buy it. Want to hear what you say 😀
After seeing ralfys Solara review, I had great success blending one part aberlour a'bunadh with about 4 parts jw black. Got better the longer they were in the bottle together. Thanks Ralfy!
Caol Ila has grown on me. The unpeated 14 was excellent, the G&M CS releases have been great. Wish I could still find a 2000 out there. The 2001 and 2003 were still quite good.
Thanks Ralfy for this. Will try to mix two malts to get something new!
where did the dalek statue go lol. love your videos great passion brother. lots of love from the states----nick
Ralfy, whats your comments on the fact 'single malt' whisky has only been marketed as such in the last 40 odd years? As i understand previous to this blends were the norm and before Irish pot still was the preferred by those in the know. Is it that since then 'single malt' as a style has been prefected or that its been raised above its quarter? I'm sure you've touched on this before, just wanted to get your opinion.
+Ciaran Murphy . . . over the last few decades, customers have discovered the qualities of flavour complexity. Sign of the times !
Hey Ralfy! Only 1 bottle of this Gordon and Macphail available in Ontario LCBO at the moment in Toronto( 500km's away) for $165 CAD. Darn! Haha How much was your bottle? Thanks for all the great times! Cheers
Hi Ralfy.
the package store just got in Laphroaig 15yo,
& the L.Cardeas(also Glendronach18 ( $$ very dear).
any suggestions??
It’s so expensive now. Found it for €140 with a discount already. Is it worth the price? I’m a big fan of the 12 year old and I’m curious about the 18, but for that price?…
Heading back to edinbugh next Sunday Ralfy any non to expensive new whiskies you think i should try?
I always like to watch you nose the whisky and see your reaction. It's like it's telling you a secret hah. Take care
Eventhough my favorite Whisky is the Caol Ila Distillers Ed., I'm not a hugh Fan of the 12y old (I prefer Ardbeg 10, Laphroig 10/Quarter Cask and Lagavulin 16y) should I try the 18y old? If not: do you have another suggestion? Thank you for the Reviews!
I'll have a sip of this one.Thanks Ralfy, always appreciate your opinion.
The 12/18/CS sampler pack of Caol Ila is my favourite whisky purchase to date. 12 is great, 18 is delicious, CS is magma.
ralfy im just getting into whisky drinking and i bought black label j.walker and all i can smell and taste is heavy oak and alcohol, i cant smell any other fragrance and taste even i added few drops of water am i drinking it wrongly? is there anyway to help me able to taste more in whisky?
gud revu Ralfy. thnx!
hey, since wen has Chivas12 had ths pronounced peated blast up front?!! interestin tho mor noticibl in th miniaturz!
Hey Ralfy! Will you be reviewing the new Laphroaig 15 any rime soon? I would be really interested in your opinion. Cheerio
+Hingle McCringleberry . . .I am looking out for it.
Nice. Thx for the reply :)
Ralfy,thanks for Caol Ila review!My first single malt was Caol Ila,since that time nothing better for me ,it is like first love...
Ralfy ,and what was yours first single malt?
+Martin Davis Thanks,now i know :)
If the cask is 2nd or 3rd fill bourbon and is less influential on the final spirit, then is there a noticeable difference between the 18 y/o and the younger versions? Does this hold true for all peated scotch whiskies?
Dying to try this one!! Thanks, Ralfy!
Hey Ralfy, I heard you say "as soon as I had my first bad bowmore ...a 12 year old" ... could you explain what that means? I had a bottle of 12 year old and loved it at first, but after the first half or so of the bottle it started tasting really bad. I thaught it was my palate which had changed or something, would be good to know if its possible that it was the bowmore that decided to alter its taste....Apart from that nice video, I would like to get this 18 year old but since its rather expensive I want to try the distillers edition first :D
. . . the 12yo version I bought was rough and badly matured. Bottles do change over time and we hope they get better, but sometimes we, or they change a little then we really notice !
Octomore also works really well to add a bit of kick to lower abv Islays.
hello ralfy.
I am a beginner when it comes to whisky, and have not tried many. (i've tried red label, and j&b rare). I was wondering, how do i know if a whisky is good or bad, when i haven't even tried many.
+DA oliHVAR Watch a couple of Ralfy's older video's about where to start you whisky education. I believe he usually says a Glenfiddich/Glenlivet 12 yo, a Genmorangie Original (10yo) and an Old Pulteney 12 yo among others. These are good value for money beginning options.Until you know if you like peated whisky I wouldn't go buying a bottle. Try someone else's first. :-)
amazing , I just blended Scarabus batch strenght (origins unknown but most like lovely yougishCaol Ila) with Lid's xmas 2021 special Ben Bracken 18 (unknown origin but most likely Caol Ila) with very good/similar effect before watching this after looking for Ralfy's opinion on Caol Ila 18 !
For some reason, I never imagined there being rapids in Scotland. I just assumed it was all trickling burns and slow-moving rivers.
Curious how much that independent, cask strength Caol Ila cost you? I live in Oregon USA and they are a "control state" so selection is severally limited here but I can order from another state.
Thanks Ralfy.
+Swami Snatchyerbucks . . . check prices at the whiskyexchange and masterofmalt.
Brilliant review once again!
Just out of curiosity, how much higher would you rate the blend you made?
+Lars Nilsson . . . . 90/100
+ralfystuff
and it's a Ralf Mark!
Hi Ralfy,can you make a review for famous 12 single malt aberfeldy 16 and aberfeldy 21?or one of them
Hi Ralf,
do you know the new Inverarity 121 homepage? The old domain is expired.
Thank you.
I think you have a better understanding of time than some theoretical physicists Ralfy
Hi Ralfy, what you think of the Caol Ila 18 years unpeated with 59,8% abv (2017). Cheers from Germany.
. . . decent and different !
How about improving JW Black Label by adding Caol Ila 12 and/or Talisker 10 to the standard bottling. Have any Malt Mates tried this? I had hoped JW Double Black might have had contained more Caol Ila but they appear to gone down a different route.
+John B (JontyB) . . . it works very well, a little more malt really elevates a blend.
Everyone's favourite place . . . isn't it.
can you recommend a malt with an awesome finish?
12:53 Isn't that what the distilleries do themselves when they produce good NAS whisky ? And doesn't that therefore somewhat justify doing it to an extent ?
+Soteriologe - As I understand it, that is what distilleries generally do whether the age is stated or not. NAS just means the distillery (for whatever reason) does not want to reveal the age of the whisky. If the whisky has an age statement, that age statement indicates the age of the youngest whisky in the bottle. For example, Ralfy's blend would be considered a 15 year old despite the fact that most of the whisky in the glass was 18 years old.
Bunnahabhain 12 is still great. Had a bottle a few months ago. Well worth the price (~$50 here).
Absolutely, it is beautiful stuff and affordable too, the best of both worlds!
SaltySAX
Yep. I need to pick up another bottle. I've been missing it.
Vykk Draygo Yeah me too! :D
I wonder why you as a Whisky drinker never have reviewed the Talisker 18.... The best whisky Ive ever tasted even if ive tasted 21 25 years old other expressions?
Well Ive got the Talisker 18 for a good price here in Norway Sweden, and maybe its sold out Idont know. But it was very good indeed.
+Dankzzz . . . . WR 503
I have several non-chill filtered whiskey's and I usually add just a little water like @Ralfystuff, how come I never see any mist in my glass?
+pdmmdk . . . put your glass with water added into the fridge or any cooler place for an hour.
+ralfystuff nice, thanks! Will give it a try :)
Made of tough stuff is our Ralfy!
My caol ila 18 year came at 60%. It says "unpeated style"...
I'm liking it though.....
I think I have seen that for ~$70-80 USD. Wonder how it would pair with weed
Knew you were gonna give it an 88 (the giant middle finger you planted at 11:43 was fantastic)
I get mixed reactions when I tell people about my home blending experiments. Some are horrified, some just think it's a cool idea and others want to know more about how I decide what will be blended and how I come about with the proportions. I have a good sized inventory but blending makes it virtually unlimited.
Mixing a 100$ bottle is ok when you spend so much, have so many bottles as you do Ralfy, but I think the average drinker with her much smaller collection cannot afford that. Not everybody has a youtube channel with 500+ review and million viewers. If I have an expectional bottle I'll enjoy it to remember it as it is. Maybe when I have a 10th of your experience I will feel bored and like experimenting mixing. Maybe I'm wrong. Thanks for the very interesting review.
For whatever reason, in my area of the US Caol Ila is always very expensive, with Ardbeg a bit less so, and Bowmore probably the cheapest islay of all.
hello ralfy , why dont you verify your youtube profile?
"Let the river of this malt take you on a journey" -Philosoralfy
You keep on saying that scotch is expensive outside of scotland? I live in Germany and it's about 1/3 of the price you pay in Scotland... Example: Glenfarclas 21 Germany: 65 € (=50 pounds) Scotland: over 100-120 pounds
Having a whiskasm ? Great stuff this tho
You should check out Johnnie Walker's new Rye Cask 10 year old.
hey Ralfy regardin re-revu's how bout a JWB vs a CR12, 2c how theyv progrest or declined ovr these many yrs. as they both deserv a re-rev!
Indeed.
+John Stumbler . . . verified First !
Although I enjoy the nose on this I found it to be underwhelming. It was nice and elegant but I was expecting to be challenged a little bit more. I would never spend the money on this because for less money there are several whiskeys I could pick up that are only 12 years old that out class is whiskey. The 43% is killing me.
1st!!
so that nobody cant copy it
To much water added!
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thank you ralfy!