Bunnahabhain 1997 10 Year Old Sherry Butt Signatory Cask Strength Collection

Bunnahabhain 11 Year Old (Adelphi)

Many whiskylovers, myself included, have a hard time pronouncing the Gaelic name of this dram. However, once you've heard it spoken properly, it's not that hard. Bunnahabhain is pronounced 'Boon-a-havn'. It means 'mouth of the river'. The distillery lies on the northern shores of Islay at a place that is called 'Sound of Islay', far north from...

Score 81/100

Bunnahabhain 2010, 12 y.o., Single Cask, peated Sherry

Another of Andy's bottles, this is a peated Bunnahabhain which Andy calls "sherry-enhanced". At 54.4% it makes a statement! The heady aroma is really something - warm, old leather, very earthy and a bit medicinal. You can just taste the open fire. It's perhaps a touch phenolic, but captivating and it stays with you for a long and...

Score 90/100

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 38 Year Old 1973 Wilson & Morgan

I have tasted quite a few beauties from the Italian bottler Wilson & Morgan. Remember the fantastic Port Ellen 1982 or the great Caol Ila 1983? Two Bunna were also quite nice, especially the 1991. So am very much looking forward to trying this 38 Year Old, matured on a sherry cask with the magical number #1. It was put to sleep in 1973 and...

Score 91/100