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Key Facts About This Single Malt Scotch

Bottler: Dramfool

Founder: Bruce Farquhar

Range: Heritage (66th Release)

Distillery: Bunnahabhain

Age: 15 years old

Distilled: 09/03/2008

Bottled: 04/07/2023

Region: Islay, Scotland

Spirit: Single malt scotch

Cask Type: Single Pedro Ximénez Hogshead

Cask Ref: #993

Alcohol by Volume: Cask strength at 55.8%

Bottled: Natural colour and without chill filtration

Outturn: 270 bottles

Bottle Size: 700ml

Bunnahabhain 15 Year Old Tasting Notes

Tasting notes by Dramfool

Nose Neat: Bursting with figs, prunes, plums and toffee. A delicate thread of jasmine and lavender followed up by maritime notes of sea spray and barnacles. Also a green note of basil and tomato leaves. Fantastic!

Taste Neat: Lighter red fruits this time, with Thornton’s toffee and Muscovado sugar. Followed by sea salt and the merest hint of jasmine and lavender.

Nose Diluted: Lighter nots of figs and prunes with Jasmine and lavender again. The maritime notes are also more delicate with sea mist and the distant aroma of drying seaweed.

Taste Diluted: Slightly more herbal with basil and tomato leaves again, with red fruits and toffee, but also a hint of lychees and fresh white grapes.

Tasting notes by Jim McEwan MBE

Colour: Medium yellow.

Nose: Opens beautifully on a fruit flight from the sherry cask. Just ahead of the sweet barley sugar from this non peated Islander is an olfactory delight and a rare release! Its time maturing in a stones throw from the Sound of Islay gives a freshness that highlights a maritime influence and highlights the fruity overture. Also a piquant oak halo really works well with the marine influence. It’s an aromatic delight!

Palate: Absolutely delightful, the freshness on the palate is vigorous & zesty, well structured with flavours of oak, toffee, ripe grapes & malt extract. This non peated Islay beauty is at its very best. Throw away the cork and the “Cares of tomorrow must wait till this day is done”!!

About this Dramfool Heritage release

The 66th Dramfool release is another first for Dramfool - a beauty of a dram from the Bunnahabhain Distillery. It has been matured in a Pedro Ximénez Hogshead for 15 years and bottled at cask strength of 55.8%. A super whisky that showcases a great spirit in a great cask.

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