Bunnahabhain 1997 14 Year Old Cask #5685 5687 Peated Signatory Un-Chillfiltered Collection

Bunnahabhain Darach Ur Batch 1

This Bunna, for the travel retail segment, matured on new American oak. It is surprisingly dark. That new American oak offers quite some sweetness on the nose, in the guise of vanilla, baked apples, overripe banana and farmer’s butter. Sweeter than expected, I must say. There is also quite a bit of ginger and hints of oak – all of it within...

Score 81/100

Bunnahabhain 1992 Malts of Scotland

This Bunnahabhain (say ‘boona-havn’) matured on a sherry butt for 17 long years, being distilled on the 25th of May 1992 and bottled in april 2010. On the nose you’ll find the sweet touches of sherry and dark berries and some cassis syrup. But there is also Earl Grey tea leaves, albeit wrapped up in some smoked bacon that has been lying on some...

Score 83/100

Bunnahabhain Wilson & Morgan 2001 12 Year Old Sherry Wood 2nd Edition

My last review was of a Wilson & Morgan Glen Scotia bottling, and I found two more W&M samples in my cabinet - damn, I should have written these as a series! Oh well. By the way, I owe a shout-out of thanks to Igor Kossov for all three of the W&M samples. Speaking of Igor - he and I, with our friend Jeff McCarthy, went to Islay in May...

Score 86/100

Bunnahabhain 25 Year Old XXV

Bunnahabhain represent the lighter side of peat on Islay. That's because the distilleries water is piped down from streams on the Margdale Hills and is considered less peaty than most water used for distilling on Islay. Bunnahabhain also hold the distinction of being one of the few distilleries founded in the 'whisky boom' of the 1920s and to...

Score 93/100