ABV: 50 %
Origin: Islay
Type: Single Malt
Bottles in collection: 0
Emptied bottles: 1
Impression: 2/5

Tasting notes
Nose: This is sweet and oaky. At first there’s a honey sweetness with vanilla and a piney new oak note within. Those three flavours are exeptionally strong, which is good when it comes to the first two. The pine note is not all that pleasant. There is a mix of fresh and ripe red berries underneath but they are more like an accent than anything else. The sweetness and the vanilla merge to a fudge note after a while. This is a weird nose which feels a bit over-oaked, and the oak delivers not so good flavours.

Mouth: It starts out with a sour background note and a sweet center. There’s a nice spicyness slowly spreading out over the palate. There are lemon, honey, vanilla and the same piney oak as on the nose. It feels young and a bit spirity underneath. There’s still caramel in the center part but it feels slightly cardboardy and salty. There’s a speck of dust and a hint of rapsberries and dried fruits as well. After some time there’s a ripe fruitiness arriving in the back.

Finish: The transition is slightly weird and for a second or two everything dips and feels slightly thin. The ripe and dried fruits are now coating the mouth while the fudge fights with the piney oakiness for attention in the center. Unfortunatly the wood notes win all too quickly and leaves a piece of astringent wood left in the mouth. This is a weird whisky from Bunnahabhain. It most certainly is a cask selection cover-up job, but the thing used as a cover isn’t good enough.

Additional information
This whisky is a limited travel retail exclusive release. There is no information about maturation period or casks used, but there are ex-sherry casks involved. It’s unchillfiltered and has natural colour.

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