Caol Ila 1980 | 30 Year Old | Old & Rare Platinum SelectionIslay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Bottled by: Douglas Laing 70cl 59. 4% When Caol Ila gets to this kind of age it starts to show some fascinating and very captivating notes of smoked green tea, aged medicine, minerals, pebbles, old fish nets and white pepper. More often than not the fruit quality tends to get bigger and greener as well. The majority of Caol Ilas that I've tried around this age have been wonderful.

Arran Founder's Reserve is a small but significant artefact from Arran's history

Ardbeg's trademark chocolate and smoky

No doubt this will be a barrel of fun

Nose: Richly textured

meaning older whiskies were used and the proportion of malt whisky would likely have been higher than for the company's Three Star blend

dark chocoalte and stewed fruits with muscular fruity sweetness to boot

Series The Single Malts Of Scotland

Bruichladdich 1994 Valinch named Some Utter Fake is one of 300 individually numbered bottles from a single Bourbon cask No 40 finished in a Chenin Blanc barrel

pretty much a perfect strength for a whisky of this age

a bourbon barrel with an outturn of 196 bottles at a natural strength of 50

drawn from a single cask hogshead

when it briefly replaced the 12-year-old as the distillery's standard entry-level bottling