dirty31
Bunnahabhain 18 Year
Single Malt — Islay, Scotland
Reviewed
January 4, 2020 (edited April 24, 2020)
Bunnahabhain 18yr 46.3% abv
Nose: salted caramel apples, rich malt, walnuts, cured dates. toffee, milk chocolate, nutmeg and allspice, sweet white grape, woven delicately throughout is a vein of peat that leans more earthy than medicinal...like damp forest floor.
Palate: rich, oily, salty and sweet. Decadent salted caramel, baked apples, milk chocolate, nuts, lovely oak spice that coats your whole mouth, chocolate malt, salted mixed nuts chewy earthy peat.
Finish: salt, leather, apples and cream, sweet dark fruit. The finish is this ever swirling tapestry of salt and sweet all of it framed in old leather and fruity cream.
One of the best sherried drams of scotch i’ve ever tasted. It’s just everything in wonderful balance. Yin and Yang. Sherry, Malt, Oak, Peat ,Sweet, Salt. Harmonious perfection in a whiskey.
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@1901 Nice. Haven't seen in DF and in fact it seems real hard to get now similar to other age statement stuff e.g. Glengoyne 22, Glendronach 18.. hopefully not a repeat of the Japanese scene!
@Soba45 Nice to get your second opinion. I must be on the lookout for it this year. I am heading to the Canaries in April and i can bring back 2 litres duty free. Usually there are great deals over there, but I must choose wisely! I’ve done the same as you - buying bottles after a solitary good experience with a dram earlier in my whiskey journey. Then as my experience broadened (comparatively) and taste developed, when I opened it, it didn’t hold the same appeal. Bushmills 10 springs to mind.
@1901 It's a cracker. Usually my drinking pattern is that I try a dram love it then get a bottle and then think hmm good but not quite as good as i remember..expectations kicking in I quess like going to a movie people rave about thinking my expectations are very high. Then over time I usually get boreder and boreder and the whiskey deteriorates and I give the bottle away. This one is different it just gets better and better and it's the only dram I'm kicking myself for giving so much away in a whiskey session I ran. Also as price has increased 50%.
Nicely described! I've never tried it and now I feel that I'm missing out