Bunnahabhain 10 Year Old 2001 Old Malt Cask Douglas Laing

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 6 Year Old 2008 The Ultimate

Bunnahabhain is known for its soft, quasi unpeated whisky, but they have some exceptions as well. This is one of those: a 6 years old Moine (which means morass or peat) that matured on a bourbon cask. The Ultimate – the label of the Dutch company van Wees – has quite a few Bunna on the market. This is a release from 2014. A fatty nose on earth,...

Score 83/100

Bunnahabhain 4 Year Old 2013 Staoisha

The adventure of the Smoking Buffalo started in 2011 with the release of a 10 years old Bowmore. Now the 9th edition has appeared in this series of peaty malts in honor of Belgium’s first class football club AA Gent (in my neck of the woods). It is a very young and heavily peated Bunna, distilled on 1st November 2013 and bottled on 9th November...

Score 86/100

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