Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old

Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old

Distell has learned to capitalize on what made Bunnahabhain a sought after whisky by brokers and independent bottlers and has raise the profile of this long time underdog. The twelve year old is one that you often see on lists of bang for your buck malts. Despite the flood of new NAS expressions it still remains available and well received.  I had...

Score 86/100

Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old

This has a 'take it or leave it' kind of flavour profile. It's not a Laphroaig, an Ardbeg, a Lagavulin, etc. It's flavour profile might be closest to a Bowmore bottling, if one must make a comparison. However the people at Bunnahabhain seem to have gone through considerable effort to make something distinctive. If I were to describe it...

Score 84/100

Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old

Got this one, so thought I'd put down a few comments on it. The nose, first sniff reveals a smack of raisins, almost sugary. I haven't checked maturation, but the sherry feels very pronounced. On a later second nosing there's some ripe banana and maybe a little bit of figs. There's some salted toffee. The Palate is quite hot on entry with a...

Score 75/100

Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old

The reviewed sample is compliments of @Nock Nose: delicate and elegant flavours of barley-malt and wine. Bunnahabhain is famous for being the most removed of the Islay distilleries from the smokey/heavily-peated style, though they do some peated whiskies as well. The sorts of barley-malt-cum-wine flavours here are not unfamiliar, they are just of...

Score 89/100