Bunnahabhain ( Official) - 12 years - 12 y.o. - 40,0%
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- Bottler:
- Official
- Age:
- 12 years
- Alcohol:
- 40,0%
- Bottle details:
- average
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- (80,26)
- price class:
8 notes disponibles en français
The nose is first very discrete and the first impressions are fruity, but more on plum jam than on ripe fruit.
The mouth is rather flat, on fruity notes coloured with nutty bitterness and a kind of dry sherry hint.
The finish is rather long but after a while the only remaining memory is the bitterness, the fruity character having completely disappeared.
Possibly that this bottle is opened since a too long time, as the impressions are not in concordance with earlier ones.
2010Johannes_Sauer
App.: Light Brown (colour added)
Nose: A very complex, multilayered and enchanting nose. There's plenty of beewax, gingerbread, vanilla, dried fruits (dates, figs), limepeel, a clear and fresh breeze from the sea and even traces of smoke (beewax candles blewn out in wintertime).
Taste: Even more beewax, and the impression from the seaside is getting stronger without being peaty. Added to the nosed aromes there is more salt (salted fish?) licorice, fisherman's, and less fruits and sweetness. Cigarette ashes or again those killed candles.
Finish: Not very long, but a very pleasureful smooth bitterness leaves a very comfortable impression of a cold chimney in the morning.
Conc.: I was very disappointed on my first visit to scotland, when I was a big peat freak and very ! convinced that every islay whisky should be like Laphroaig or Caol Ila and bought a bottle of this Bunna. It took me some some years to buy a bottle again and getting some very pleasureful surprise...
2008Henrik Johansson
Date of tasting: 19/9 2008
Apperance: A rich bronzy copper
Nose: Straight nose immediately reveals some maritime hints. It seems quite peaty without being smoky. There are dried shellfish there and mossy water along with a burnt rubber smell. Seems almost a little bit offending at times, but I think I can learn to like it. The diluted nose is fresher, like a sea breeze. Some honey, cranberries and feint spicyness there too. A second tasting revealed more winey and fruity notes, and the maritime hints had faded a bit.
Body: Medium to light
Palate: On the sweet side. Quiet yet pequliar start, almost a little wishy washy, like a fruit juice which is too diluted. The middle rolls in with some heftyness which is very welcome indeed, there are some fruits th! ere, but they get washed away by a surge of the kippery, sulphury elements detected in the aroma. The finish is a little short.
Strangely, although this dram would seem too vatted down to reveal it's true merits, it benefits by adding some water. It becomes sweeter, and some of its less desirable elements become less noticeable. Be careful though, it can easily become too much.
Comments: All in all this is a decent dram, although far from an ace. It has a unique character which sets it appart, but other than that it's just mildly more pleasant than your average blended scotch.
2008
