Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old Cask Strength - 2022 Edition

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With lots of sherry notes at its heart, alongside warming oak and just a smidge of sea breeze, this single malt does a fantastic job of showing off why Bunnahabhain is so well-loved (in fact, it even won our very first Master of Malt Whisky Icon championship! Nose: Chocolate buttons, cranberries, and cherries, with dates and sultanas joining in time, bolstered by woody spice. Just to gauge as to how different in phenolic level this whisky actually is, and how there’s still enough of the maritime element in there to make it scrumptious anyway.Further, deliberate or undeliberate manipulation of information on the Service (such as ratings), any activity with the intent to influence such information, value or reviews on products (e. You hereby represent and warrant that you are authorized to make any Contributions, that your Contributions and the use by us will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party. Natural colour and without chill filtration, this is an ace opportunity to sample the single malt in its rawer form. At one time, there were 23 active distilleries in operation on the island, so competition to sell liquid was rife. I could smell and taste the Bunna signature in this bottle and as a common sensory thread running through the casks in Warehouse 9 from which we were given drams.

You’re also surrounded by established whisky producers such as Laphroaig, Lagavulin, Ardbeg and Lochindaal/Port Charlotte. Fast forward to late 2022 and the 2021 edition has been slowly nursed over the course of the previous 12 months. Regardless of whether the Service offers the functionality to contribute, you are solely responsible and liable for any content and information that you create, upload, post, publish, link to, duplicate, transmit, record, display or otherwise make available on the Service or to other Members, such as chat messages, text messages, videos, audio, audio recordings, music, pictures, photographs, text and any other information or materials, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted (“Contributions”). Pro Tip: We highly recommend you don’t copy us and do the morning session as cask strength whisky at 10:30am is a fairly big challenge even for practiced drinkers.

That the distillery has decided to make the 12 year old cask strength release explicitly batch variable means that we now have three very distinct drams across three years that showcase different aspects of the spirit. The initially taciturn man who quickly became chattier when describing his wariness about news of yet another distillery approved for the island, the woman who offered us some cucumbers from her garden because she had too many because “they just won’t stop”, the couple on the beach at Machir Bay at sunset sitting silent and cross-legged, with their backs to each other, eyes closed, engaging in some meditation with their pebble-ringed fire crackling and with waves hitting the beach as their evening background music. but this time, given the tension between my scepticism, trepidation, and expectations colliding together, it set off a wave of internal paranoid panic.

But this time, like an old cranky school teacher, I shut off the lights and killed the party before it started. Maybe I don’t want to kill this bottle off too quickly, only to feel a bit miffed at paying over the odds for a 12-year-old Scotch again. Your continued use of the Service after any such changes or updates take effect will constitute acknowledgement and (as applicable) acceptance of those changes or updates. If you're using a VPN or proxy IP service, please turn it off and re-load this page to access our site.These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The relatively flat (for Scotland) moorland between Bowmore and Port Ellen felt calm to the more blustery Bruichladdich on the far side of Loch Indaal. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide to us in relation to your account, and for updating it where necessary. Wandering around Finlaggan’s historical ruins of a meeting house, chapel, and various other structures long since demolished prompted us to stop and consider the kinds of things that these sorts of places are very good at prompting. I had purchased the 2023 12 year old cask strength just before our trip to Islay and had begun to explore it.

Bunnahabhain's main water source is drawn from the nearby Margadale river and, seemingly, it's the only distillery on the island to use spring water. If you place drams of the 2021 and the 2022 next to the standard 46% 12 year old, right away you’ll group the 2022 and the standard 12 Glencairns together with the 2021 as the outlier.On the palate we’re getting blood orange juice, tobacco, orange peel, walnuts, and notes of sherry soaked raisins. These versatile flat-bottomed Clyde puffer ships could be beached on the shore without the need for a quay. Driven by the variation in whisky and bitten by ‘the bug’ he was unable to resist taking his incessant geeking-out to friends and family. The Service, including any information contained therein, does not constitute any advice (such as but not limited to investment advice, tax advice, financial, economic advice) and is not intended as recommendations (whether personal, in general, or otherwise) to invest in companies, products, services. This second release is of course similar in many ways to the first, as we follow the same classic recipe of unpeated Islay spirit in oloroso.