Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old Cask Strength - 2022 Edition

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Taste: Arrives with the same dried fruits character… Raisins, sultanas, prunes. Salted caramel. Peppercorns. More chocolate. Oak char. Malty, cereals on the finish. Some fresh leather. With water there’s vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce. Matured on the remote, north-eastern coastline of Islay, and produced using natural spring water from the Margadale spring, this 12-Year-Old Cask Strength is an undiluted celebration of the distillery’s hugely popular Bunnahabhain 12-Year-Old. We may, but are not under any obligation, to release new functionalities and tools or other features for the Service every now and then. Any new functionalities, tools and features shall be part of and governed by the Terms from the moment they are launched and/or available. Further, we reserve the right to modify, change, discontinue the Service, add or remove features, update the Service, change its appearance, temporarily and permanently, at any time, in whole or any part thereof. The finish is long and a little dry. Im not detecting a sweet note. What I am getting is long, old-charred wood with slight hints of rhubarb and more pepper.

Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old Cask Strength 2022 - House of Malt

Bunnahabhain Bottler Distillery Bottling Bottling serie Cask Strength Edition 2022 Bottled 06.06.2022 Stated Age 12 years old Casktype Ex-Sherry Strength 56.6 % Vol. Size 700 ml 750 ml Bottle code 2351364 L5 xx:xx 22157 Barcode 5029704220793 Added on 19 oct 2022 10:12 pm by brummie

Bunnahabhain Distillery dates from the Victorian age. It was established in the north-east of Islay in 1881. In those days, that part of the island was largely empty. The village that now surrounds the distillery was built purely to accommodate the workers. All deliveries were made by sea with fuel and supplies dropped off and whisky shipped off to the mainland to be sold to the blenders and bottlers of the big cities. It wasn’t until 1960 that a road was constructed to link the distillery with Port Askaig. Even then, deliveries by boat continued until 1993. This deep russet gold, natural cask strength 12 Year Old is a celebration of the Bunnahabhain house style. Delivering big hits of chocolate, spice and concentrated dried fruits. The Loch Fyne Chocolate & Orange Liqueur The Loch Fyne Blended Scotch Whisky The Loch Fyne Botanical Gin Whiskybase B.V. (“Whiskybase”, “we” or “us”, company details below) offers a whisky enthusiasts online platform that provides its members access to the most comprehensive, transparent and trusted resource of whisky bottles and allows and stimulates its members to contribute information about whisky bottles to the platform (“Service”).

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Thoughts: I’m a huge fan of Bunnahabhain’s standard 12-year-old bottling. In terms of core range, age-stated releases, it’s about the best value for money you’ll find today. The idea of a cask strength version seemed to hold a lot of potential but I did wonder how much better it could be, given the impressive standard of the original. As it turns out, the original could be improved upon. Quite a bit, in fact. The sherry character seems more intense in the cask strength version. In fact, everything seems to have been dialled up a notch. The raisins are juicier, the caramel richer and the peppercorns spicier. It’s just altogether… bigger. Whiskybase B.V. is the Dutch private limited liability company, having its statutory seat in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and its office at Zwaanshals 530, 3035 KS Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Whiskybase B.V. is registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce under no. 52072819.If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, the remainder of the Terms shall continue in full force and effect. Unless mandatory applicable law provides otherwise, your use of and membership to the Service are exclusively governed by Dutch law. We shall first try to settle any dispute over a dram of whisky. Disputes that cannot be settled over multiple drams of whisky shall be solely submitted to the court of Amsterdam, The Netherlands unless mandatory applicable law provides otherwise. The Service has been prepared by us solely for information purposes to Members and the Service is based on information we consider reliable and we obtain the contents of the Service from a number of different third party sources (including Contributions), but we do not endorse, support, represent, warrant or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of the Services and any information therein.

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Palate: Coa-coa, Spice, Light Brine, Full oily body, Sweet Dried Fruits, Toffee, Mild Oak Tannins, Candy Orange Citrus.Nose: Initial notes of creamy milk chocolate, red berries and sweet dried fruit are balanced with classic Oloroso spiciness and a hint of cloves. With Bunnahabhain 12yo cask strength, we hand select the casks which make the batch, based on cask type and profile. We choose from a selection of first and second fill oloroso casks and balance with a small percentage of bourbon. As this product is cask strength, the strength naturally will vary – in 2021 the strength was 55.1% in comparison to this years release which is 56.6%. With the higher strength, some of the flavours appear to be more intense and concentrated – as this strength lowers, the myriad of flavours are shown more readily. If we decide not to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms, such decision shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. The distillery has come a long way since those days and the Scotch whisky industry has become somewhat obsessed (with good reason) with reducing its emissions. The Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) has set a target of net zero emissions by 2040. Bunnahabhain, however, hopes to beat that date by a considerable margin.

Bunnahabhain 12 Year Old Cask Strength - 2022 Edition Whisky

Roasted nuts and spice lead the way with cinnamon and cloves fading to reveal soft notes of butterscotch, toffee, sultanas and a gentle hint of coffee. It all sounds great but as any visitor to Islay will tell you, the island doesn’t appear to be blessed with an abundance of trees. I can’t help but wondering exactly how much wood chip needs to be burned every day to produce an output of 2.5million litres per year and where it’s all going to come from. What if Islay can’t supply the full requirement? Will it be shipped in from elsewhere? Won’t that create more emissions just to bring fuel in? In any case, I think it’s great to see steps being taken. Whether they prove to be the right steps, only time will tell. I sincerely hope Bunnahabhain’s new system works exactly the way Distell say it will. At this stage, any and all attempts at progress should be welcomed.Nothing in the Terms shall exclude or limit our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or for death or personal injury resulting from gross negligence or willful misconduct by us. Distell, the South Africa-based owner of Bunnahabhain, says the “entirely locally sourced fuelling syst em” will support Islay’s forests and economy using wood chippings from low value timber felled on the island. They will apparently also be “restoring” peat bog and planting new trees to replace existing conifer forests. Ash from the nutrient-rich biomass fuel will be used as a natural fertiliser for the re-planted forest, creating a circular model for sustainability.