A peated Bunnahabhain released for Fèis Ile 2019, these bottles tend to go fast, so I was pretty happy I got to find a sample of one, moreso that it’s in my preferred peated style.
Bunnahabhain 11 2008 Mòine French Oak Finish Fèis Ile 2019, Islay Single Malt, 57.4% ABV
Minutia: Distilled on February 7, 2008 and finished in French oak hogsheads before bottling on February 11, 2019 yielding 1872 bottles. Reviewed blind, neat in an opaque glencairn.
Color: Deep copper; 1.0.
Nose: Smoke, winey, cardboard. Some fruit tries to peek out, but the ethanol is strong, as are the other aromas, so they really get through.
Taste: Musty, bitter, wood, ash, leather, smoke, faint fruit. The fruit feels like the taste version of a product that’s sat in a shop window getting faded for a few years.
Finish: Smoked stuff, medicinal flavor, wood. Long.
Guess: Cask strength Laphroaig. Maybe an Octomore, but I doubt it. If I weren’t pretty sure I don’t have a Laphroaig 10 Cask Strength sample in my inventory, I’d guess it’s a batch of that.
Wow, a real nice peater. It’s fun how the distillery probably best know for being the unpeated one on Islay makes some damn good peated whisky. Not worth quite what it’s going for now, but it’s a real good one I’d be happy to have bought a bottle of had I been on Islay when it was sold.
Score: 88
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