Caol Ila The Phantom Horsemen, Signatory Vintage

You know i can't resist a beautiful label, on a Signatory Vintage decanter. Specially if the whisky has such a deep copper color due to an obvious strong sherry maturation. Well, this is the darkest Caol Ila i have ever seen, and it gets darker due to its great looking label of the Phantom Horseman. This one is actually a part of a collection called Angels & Horsemen, everything pretty apocalyptic. To make things even better, this has been bottled at 58.4%abv, one of only 1238 bottles ever made. On the nose, this is incredible. Cherries, red fruits, plums, blackberry marmalade, lotion for burnt skin. Smokey and medicinal. On the palate, it is absolutely perfect. Marmalade with hot chilli peppers. Cherries. It is so thick, you can even chew it. Lulo fruit, Hershey's Strawberry syrup. Aftertaste is a Doomsday of flavor. It is so powerful and good. Very dry, star aniseed, medicinal, cotton, swamp. Lovely strong spiciness. Overall, the Judgement day for this dram is really excelent. This is an extraordinary, unforgettable and mythical whisky, full of flavor. It is so complex that it has various layers of flavor and aroma notes. Amazing stuff, this is a perfect single malt. My score for it of course is a 100 over 100, and it will be on my top ten whiskies of 2023 for sure.