Bunnahabhain 1980 19 Year Old First Cask

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 review is for the "new," non-chill filtered and higher abv Bunna 12. As others have noted, this is a totally different whisky from the old 12, so if you're approaching it expecting a more "evolved" or "refined" version of the old Bunna you may be a little disappointed. The new Bunna is more "in your...

Score 86/100

Bunnahabhain 14 Year Old 2000 Malts of Scotland

The youngest Bunna release from the German Malts of Scotland was taken from a sherry butt. Judging by the color, it was quite an active cask. Because it is so young – only 14 years old – the cask yielded no less than 655 bottles, that will each come with a price tag of 90 EUR. Dark and sweet on the nose on bitter chocolate, raisins and plums. It...

Score 82/100

Bunnahabhain G&M MachPhail's Collection 1990

Recently a friend of mine, his father-in-law and I had a tasting session. We actually went through 13 drams in one sitting. A long but very good night! The whiskies we went through in order were Bushmills Black Bush, Macphail's Collection Bunnahabhain 1990 (bottled in 2006), Bruichladdich 10 year old (bottled in 1979), Ardbeg Blasda, Port Ellen 25...

Score 76/100