Bunnahabhain 25 Year Old

Bunnahabhain 8 Year Old The Macphail's Collection

A Bunna for less than 35 EUR? You will have to look for the Macphail’s Collection then, a label of Gordon & Macphail that offers 8 Year Old single malts at a very friendly price. On this label ‘Heavily Peated’ is mentioned. Will this be a peat monster? Let us see. Oh, yeah, this is a dirty Bunna on the nose! Wet earth, a bit of manure, mocha,...

Score 84/100

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 18 Year Old

Upon opening, there is a definite nose of vanilla, caramel, soft leather, and a certain "sweetness". For an Islay, there is very little of the smoke and peat one would usually expect. That is obviously what sets this whisky apart from it's well-smoked brothers. The palate is quite similar to the nose - sweetness, vanilla and caramel,...

Score 80/100

Bunnahabhain 35 Year Old 1976 The Whisky Mercenary

I first tried this at the Spirits in the Sky festival in Leuven (B), when Jürgen offered me a sample. It was great. So I was very happy that the Whisky Mercenary decided to send me sample of all of his bottlings, this one included, to try again in the serenity of my whisky basement. Oh, my, this nose is out of this World! Creamy like famer butter...

Score 92/100