Bunnahabhain 33 Year Old 1979 The Octave Duncan Taylor

Bunnahabhain 1997 Queen of the Moorlands

Nose: Brine , peat and sweet smoke. Some cigar ash, mushrooms and balsamic traces. Funky. Sherried peaty bunny, and those I do like! Palate: Big waves of peat and campfire smoke. Some oak , spice and burnt sugar. Not very complex, but very yummy and warms your soul from the inside. Finish : Long. Dry. Ashy with burnt sugar going a long way,...

Score 89/100

Bunnahabhain 20 Year Old Wilson & Morgan

While the former tasted Bunna from Wilson & Morgan was a young animal, this is a 20 year old blend (do not take this the wrong way) of two casks, number 5521 and 5522. Judging from the color of the whisky, these were sherry casks. Well, the sherry wood has had a lot more influence on the nose here. All kinds of forest scents and prunes and...

Score 86/100

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

Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old

This was packaged in a neat little dark bottle, with a red, fiery looking logo showing off the complex, fun-to-say "Bunnahabhain" and a grizzled old seaman looking out over the bow of his ship, probably on a magnanimous (or drunk?) voyage off the Islay coast. That is what this whisky feels like to drink. The nose has a ton of sea salt...

Score 95/100