Bunnahabhain 1997 12 Year Old Unchilfiltered Peated Signatory Un-Chillfiltered Collection

Bunnahabhain Signatory Vintage '97 13 yr old

Distilled 11/12/97 Bottled 13/12/10 Upon adding water this went very cloudy. I know this can happen with NCF cask strength but this is the best example of it that I have seen. Aged in two hogsheads for 13 years before being bottled. A release of 588 bottles of cask strength, this is 248 and has been open for well over 18 months. Nose. Smokey,...

Score 89/100

Bunnahabhain SMWS 10.165 Sea, sand and soot 11 Years Aged

I picked up this SMWS when I went to the Victoria Film Festival in February 2020, at The Strath (where I also picked up a Shelter Point that I reviewed about a week ago). This was distilled Oct 6 2006 and matured for 11 years in a refill barrel/ex-bourbon, yielding 181 bottles. The colour is a pale gold. On the nose there is a light peating with...

Score 90/100

Bunnahabhain Toiteach A Dha

Toiteach A Dha, is a remix version of one of the first regular peated expressions Bunnahabhain released a few years back. It is said to contain a higher proportion of sherry casks than the original but without detailed vatting info there's no way to know what's up. I believe it differentiates itself from the Ceobanach which uses a higher PPM malt...

Score 87/100

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