I have heard many different pronunciations of this Islay distillery. Caol Ila is pronounced ‘cull-ee-lah'. Caol Ila is the Scottish Gaelic name for the Sound of Islay – the body of water that ...
Smoky Irish whiskey used to be common but disappeared until 1996, when John Teeling of the Cooley Distillery launched Connemara. He did so with intentions to target the Japanese highball market with a ...
He did so with intentions to target the Japanese highball market with a whiskey similar to Caol Ila Scotch. At the time, he and his team didn’t realize they were tapping into Ireland’s rich ...