Meaning "mouth of the river" Bunnahabhain sits on Islay's north eastern shore, surrounded by the hamlet that grew up around the distillery. Built around a courtyard between 1880-1883, the distillery partially resembles a Bordeaux château.
Once heavily peated, as local peat then fired the kilns drying the malt, today's Bunnahabhains are much less phenolic as the malted barley is supplied lightly peated. The onion-shaped wash stills and pear-shaped spirit stills yield Islay's least peated, most Speyside-like malt, that is round, complex and full in flavour. Part of Highland Distillers since 1887.
ALC 46.3%
Scotland
£56.00 / per bottleMellow dram
Scotland
