Bunnahabhain 1991 GM Connoisseurs Choice - Cask Strength
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Bunnahabhain |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | Connoisseurs Choice - Cask Strength |
| Vintage | 1991 |
| Bottled Year | 2021 |
| Age | 28년 |
| Cask Type | Refill American Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 50.3% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islay |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
아일라 북단 외딴 해안가에 선 부나하벤은 같은 섬의 이웃들과 달리 피트를 절제한 부드러운 캐릭터로 알려져 있다. 1991년 리필 아메리칸 호그스헤드에서 28년을 보낸 이 보틀링은 맑은 황금빛을 띠며, 향에서는 마른 헤이즐넛과 보리, 옅은 바다 내음이 또렷이 깃든다. 50.3도의 입은 꿀과 구운 견과, 은은한 소금기로 묵직하게 입을 채우고, 긴 세월이 부드러운 결을 빚는다. 여운은 따뜻한 곡물과 옅은 해조의 짠맛으로 잔잔히 남는다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
straw
air Nose
a similar style but this one's more herbal, less honeyed, probably a little brighter and with more citrus and even a little seaweed. Almost another generation of Bunnahabhain, rather tenser and indeed brighter. A little chalk. With water: damp chalk, mud, moss, lemons and citrons, kelp and crabs, fresh bread… All things that we usually enjoy
restaurant Palate
even more so, this is very tight, a little smoky, certainly mineral, lemony, kind of 'muddy' in a good way, a little sooty, grassy, slightly fermentary… If you like, we're rather more in the cluster of HP, Cly, Spr and all. Which couldn't be bad news. With water: perhaps the missing link between the gentler praline-led older batches and the newer, tighter, more coastal, more phenolic style of Bunnahabhain. I'm finding this pretty perfect, while it would go on and on with green citrus and earthy herbs