Sold outIn short · Bunnahabhain (Islay), 6 years.
“Imagine lighting a peat fire on the beach in glorious sunshine then out of nowhere dark stormy clouds, that indicate an arriving thunderstorm, fill the sky.…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 10.198 is a single cask of Bunnahabhain, in the Islay region, 6 years old, bottled at 61%. Every Society bottle numbered 10.x is from Bunnahabhain.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
On Islay's north-east shore, facing Jura across the Sound, Bunnahabhain has distilled since 1881; the village was built to house its workers, and until a road arrived in 1960 everything came and went by sea. On an island famed for smoke, its classic spirit is the gentle exception, made from unpeated malt: nutty, salty-sweet and at ease in sherry wood. The name means 'mouth of the river'. Distell's, now Heineken's.