Bunnahabhain 1988 24 Year Old Cask #4111 Berry Bros

Bunnahabhain 31 Year Old 1967 G&M Rare Old

One of the many series by Gordon & Macphail, the known bottler from Elgin, is the Rare Old. This 31 Year Old Bunna from 1967 was bottled about 14 years ago. The nose is surprisingly soft and fruity. I am at a fruit auction: pears, apples, cherries and even some strawberries. Pineapple too, but the dried version. The whole is nicely framed by...

Score 90/100

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 4 Year Old 2013 The Ultimate

Apart from Moine (meaning peat) there is another heavily peated Bunna called Staoisha. It is a reference to one of the water sources used by the distillery on Islay for the production of their peaty whisky. This cask was filled with spirit in 2013 and bottled at very young age by van Wees, the Dutch bottler. They don’t come much paler than this....

Score 84/100

Bunnahabhain Cruach-Mhona

Cruach-Mhòna is Gaelic for ‘peatstack’, so I suppose this is going to be a heavily peated Bunna. It comes in 1 liter bottles for travel retail. I tried it for the first time in 2011, but this is a bottling from 2015, the third batch. The nose is peaty indeed, but not overly so. Surprisingly sweet though. Dark and sweet, in fact. It is obvious...

Score 83/100