THE BUNNAHABHAIN DISTILLERY lies on the peaceful, sheltered north-eastern coast of Islay, the most southerly of the Hebridean Islands. Built in 1881 its name comes from the Gaelic, Bunnahabhain (Bu-na-ha-venn), meaning ‘mouth of the river’, a reference to the Margadale, the river from whose clear Spring waters the whisky is distilled. Read More »
A giant leap forward for Bunnahabhain 12yo, this edition was launched in summer 2010 with a jump in strength to 46.3% and a declaration of no chill-filtration and no added colouring. Enormous credit goes to Burn Stewart for giving punters what they want without jacking up the price too much and we earnestly hope that this will be a massive success. Bravo! Web-Exclusive Price!
A heavily-peated Bunnahabhain 1997 matured in a pair of hogsheads. Fresh and bursting with smoky energy, this is a top-quality dram at a great price. Bottled for Signatory's Unchilfiltered series.
Bunnahabhain 12yo is a very lightly-peated malt - probably the mildest introduction to the Islay style. A category winner at the World Whisky Awards 2010.
A single cask 2001 Bunnahabhain from McGibbons as part of their Provenance range of whiskies. Only 9 years old but matured in a sherry cask for a nice slab of colour and hopefully some solid fruit and spice.
A young 2001 Bunnahabhain bottled by Signatory for their Cask Strength Collection. This one may only be 9 years old but thanks to the first fill sherry butt it sat in it's picked up rather a lot of colour - no artificial colouring here.
After a string of highly-regarded indie peated Bunnahabhains, the distillery has finally released an official version of their heavily-peated malt. Toiteach is Gaelic for Smoky, and apparently there's some sherry influence on this as well. Kudos to Burn Stewart for bottling this unchilfiltered at 46%.
An official 1L bottling of Bunnahabhain, originally for travel retail. Darach Ur means 'New Oak' in Scots Gaelic - this no-age-statement malt has been matured exclusively in virgin American oak casks.
Introduced in 2010, this is the relaunched version of Bunnahabhain 18yo, with owners Burn Stewart having ditched the caramel colouring and chill-filtration and upped the strength to 46.3%. A triumph for 'naturalist' whisky drinkers and a PR triumph for Burn Stewart - Bravo!
Cruach-Mhona, gaelic for 'peat stack', a pile of drying peat bricks cut for fuel, is a departure from Bunnahabhain's usual style, adding in some peat to their normally unpeated spirit. Originally released solely into travel retail.
A 21 year old Bunnahabhain from Douglas Laing, bottled at 50% as part of their Old Malt Cask range. This is a single cask whisky, laid down in 1990 and bottled in 2011.