Bottle Details:
Distillery: Caol Ila
Bottler: Swell de Spirits (SdS)
Bottling serie: Wonders of The World
Vintage: 2010
Bottled: 2022
Strength: 57.0 % Vol.
Casktype: Jamaican Rum cask finish
Volume: 500ml
Caol Ila 2010, Swell de Spirits, 500ml
Caol Ila and rum, clash or not clash, what do you think? Let's see… Colour: white wine. Nose: earth, humus, seashells, olive oil, new blue jean, musty old wine cellar, fresh plaster… Well, no clash this far, on the contrary… With water: well, it does 'nose' like if the rum was a Jamaican, or a Trinidadian, perhaps. Which means that there couldn't be any clashes, both profiles being kind of close, in a way. Earth and smoke and brine and olives, you know. Mouth (neat): a wee soapiness at first but that was very fleeting, then rather salty lemons and smoky capers. Did anyone ever try to smoke capers? Not even in Italy? With water: citrus and wool, samphires... Finish: long, very briney, tight, much more vertical than I had thought when I did read 'rum cask finish'. Comments: very smart duet.
SGP:466 - 87 points.