Bunnahabhain 1979 30 Year Old Sherry Cask Chieftain's Ian Macleod Chieftain

Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old

When I got a bottle of Bunnahabhain 12yo I was really thrilled with it's name and really wanted to like the whisky. Just after I opened the bottle the nose was very nice and complex. I could get sea salt, aniseed, grass, nuts, some peat. After a while it mellowed a bit and develped nicely into some vanilla, sherry, toffee, plum and condensed milk....

Score 80/100

Bunnahabhain 36 Year Old 1975 The Nectar

The boys of The Nectar shared this Fino Sherry cask with La Maison du Whisky, the famous French retailer. This is a very soft nose with hardly any peat at all. I get brown toast, plastered with farm butter, covered with banana slices with some brown sugar on top. Adding some water does not hurt this nose at all. It is very soft and silky, lightly...

Score 90/100

Bunnahabhain 1987 - 26YO Berry Bros.

Picked this up at Manchester Whisky Festival last week. Berry Brothers always seem to steal the show there... Nose: Butter and Toffee intially followed by a spicy, Cinnamony Apple flavour. Creamy, coffee, almost hickory-like notes. And then onto liquorice hints. Powerful spices but restrained by creaminess. And now Maple Syrup. This is so complex...

Score 95/100

Bunnahabhain Wilson & Morgan 2001 12 Year Old Sherry Wood 2nd Edition

My last review was of a Wilson & Morgan Glen Scotia bottling, and I found two more W&M samples in my cabinet - damn, I should have written these as a series! Oh well. By the way, I owe a shout-out of thanks to Igor Kossov for all three of the W&M samples. Speaking of Igor - he and I, with our friend Jeff McCarthy, went to Islay in May...

Score 86/100