North Star Spirits Periodical Caol Ila 7 Year Old

North Star Spirits was founded in Glasgow in 2016 by Iain Croucher. They have since developed a strong reputation for bottling fantastic single cask and small batch whiskies, as well as the much-lauded Vega and Spica blends.

In a break from North Stars usual bottling style, the Periodical Series are presented in beautiful old style 500ml medicine bottles as were used by whisky merchants way back.

Each Periodical release is bottled at a minimum of 50% ABV

This is a 7 year old Caol Ila that has been aged in a single ex-Port octave cask and there were only 60 bottles produced, making it one of the rarer Periodical releases.

Caol Ila distillery was built in 1846 by Hector Henderson, who was bought out from the venture a little over 10 years later by Bulloch Lade. The blending firm merged with DCL (now Diageo) in 1927, who still run the distillery today. In 1972 the original site was demolished and replaced by a new one. When distilling resumed in 1974, Caol Ila was the largest producer of single malt on the Isle of Islay. Despite this, due to its importance in popular blends such as Johnnie Walker, its single malt brand disappeared under United Distillers, and it was not until 2002 that it would return, when the 12 year old was revived by Diageo. The Flora & Fauna release was well-regarded in the meantime, but it was independent releases like this that gave the best opportunity to sample this much-loved single malt.

This bottle is from a private collection & is not eligible for a Vat receipt.