Bunnahabhain 14 Year Old James MacArthur

Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old

Recently the wonderful people at Bunnahabain have changed their bottling of the standard 12yo. The bottle has changed from a green to a dark brown, the ABV % was bummed up from 40% to 46.3%, and they have changed to a non-chill filtration format. Now I will start this by saying that I don't think that I have ever had the original dram, save one...

Score 84/100

Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old 2009 Klubb23 for Buds & Barrels

Bunna 2009 on sherry? I have good memories of that. There’s good reason for having bottled such a cask with Mark & Manny's malts. But our friends from Klubb23 also could get their hands on such a cask and bottled it for the shop Buds & Barrels, run by our good friend Tom Haseldonckx. It's the first of a series of four single casks in the...

Score 88/100

Bunnahabhain 1997 14 Year Old Peated

750mL Chieftain's Cask Bottling. Distilled December 1997 and bottled in December 2011. 14 Year Old Peated Bunnahabhain. Pours a light straw, speckles of tears and big legs. Nose at first is harsh toasted macadamia nut and husky amaretto. Thankfully opens up to beautiful savory sausage, rich herbal tea, fresh sea salt breeze, orange blossom honey,...

Score 96/100

Bunnahabhain 16 Year Old 1997 Malts of Scotland

The label of this MoS bottling is completely for Christmas with a tree and the words Christmas 2013 – Peated on it. So we are expecting a pretty peaty Bunna on sherry. Get ready. A good, somewhat dry but at the same time creamy, bittersweet nose on roasted nuts, raisins and plums. Some pine needles. Ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Twig of mint. Salty...

Score 88/100