Bunnahabhain reviews

Came across this small bottle single cask whisky in Edinburgh. It's a Bunnahabhain (Islay), distilled in 2001, bottled in 2010, and that makes it "over 9 years". On the nose, this whisky is very spicy…

Nose: Brine , peat and sweet smoke. Some cigar ash, mushrooms and balsamic traces. Funky. Sherried peaty bunny, and those I do like!Palate: Big waves of peat and campfire smoke. Some oak , spice and…

Need I repeat my saying that peat smoke and sherry go well together, or horribly together, depending on the combination. This time we’re in for a treat. This wee wonder was distilled in December of 1990…

Upon opening, there is a definite nose of vanilla, caramel, soft leather, and a certain "sweetness". For an Islay, there is very little of the smoke and peat one would usually expect. That is obviously…

Nose: Sweet, with wee balsamic. Raisins dipped in liquor. Wood. Cherries kirsch, and hints of smoke. Palate: Starts bitter sweet with quite some wood. Coconut, on top of apple crumble, some smoke. Men…

Durach Ur is a new whisky experience, the experiment of using "New Oak" has added an unique nose and finish to the whisky.The nose barley sweet,dry fruit and most profoundly, its like putting your nose…

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…

Recently the wonderful people at Bunnahabain have changed their bottling of the standard 12yo. The bottle has changed from a green to a dark brown, the ABV % was bummed up from 40% to 46.3%, and they…

This is a release by the Dutch whiskyclub Commitment to Malt, of which my patner in whiskycrime Imanuel is a member. So I had tasted it before, but didn’t write notes then. Time to correct that. This is…

This is the first Bunnahabhain in the Elements of Islay series. It’s a peated version from an otherwise unpeated Islay distillery.Nose: peated, no doubt. Rather deep smoke with a hint of rubber. Very…