Bunnahabhain reviews

My first stray away from the 12, if my memory serves, which is a whisky I was very fond of last time out. This was a most welcome Father's day gift but perhaps not something I would have bought for…

Today we’ll try a Bunna from 1988 that matured for three decades on a refill butt – a sherry cask. It was released in 2018 in the XOP – Xtra Old Particular – series from Douglas Laing. Not for everyone’s…

Apart from Moine (meaning peat) there is another heavily peated Bunna called Staoisha. It is a reference to one of the water sources used by the distillery on Islay for the production of their peaty…

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.…

This young Bunnahabhain from 2007 was bottled by Robin Tuced and his Blackadder team in their famous Raw Cask series. It matured on a hogshead before being finish in a sherry cask. The ABV suggests that…

Independent bottler Adelphi was able to get their hands on a refill sherry cask in which the spirit of Bunnahabhain matured for 14 years, from 1997 until 2012. It yielded 525 bottles at cask strength.…

Feinkost Reifferscheid is a family run delicatessen in Bonn, Germany, founded in 1890 and run today by Bärbel and Lutz Reiferscheid. Since 1993 they also sell whisky. From time to time they bottle some…

Whiskyclub Ypenburg from Holland was founded in 2014 by a guy named Ruud. By now, they host monthly tastings. In 2016 they launched their first club bottling – a 23 years old Bunnahabhain, bottled in…

Bunnahabhain is Gaelic for ‘mouth of the river’ and can be found north of Port Askaig on Islay, founded in 1881. Their whisky is considered to be among the lightest of the island peat-wise (if we make…

I don’t have a lot of formal experience with Bunnahabhain. I just reviewed another Bunnahabhain and so I thought this would be a good time to review something from the same distillery, so that I could…