Reviews #305-310: A handful of hand-fills (Bunnahabhain)

Good day to all.

Got to try a few of these. My thoughts below:

Bunnahabhain hand filled 2009 red wine 57.7%

👃🏻 heavy handed cask here, molasses, jammy, raspberries, wonderful

👅 hmm super juicy. Tastes like plum juice. Little molassy, but main note i get is plum juice. Its got a nice old oak on the late palate/finish. Very delicious. 89.

Bunnahabhain hand fill 14y in Amarone 61%

👃🏻 old furniture, pot pourri, marmelade

👅 oh man haha Heavy marmelade, pot pourri. Yea cant really get back the marmelade and pot pourri notes. 88.

Bunnahabhain hand filled 6y in bourbs 57.5%

👃🏻 honeycomb. Malty.

👅 punchy/fiesty. Honey. Malty. Honeycombs. Hm i mean its good but confused why this got bottled as a single cask hand fill. 79.

Bunnahabhain Hand-Filled 17y in Manzanilla 58.6%

👃🏻 heavy on the damp musty cottage in the woods. Toffee.

👅 very nice, again heavy on the damp musty cottage in the woods note. Grandmas basement. Toffee. Nice feel to it. Lively. Savory. This is a nice drams and characteriscally Bunna (almost too much so). 87. Little jamminess on the finish.

Bunnahabhain hand filled 2004 moine oloroso 18y 53.9%

👃🏻 burning forest, jam, jam and lapsang suchong, salty.

👅 omggg so good. Salty campfire liquid smoke jam. 🤤🤤 92/93.

Hand filled bunnahabhain px 54.1%

👃 fruity musty oak. Toffee. Xmas cake

👅 butterscotch, old toffee, salt funk. Musty oak. Little spicy. Punchy. Tawny port. Characteristically bunna. 92.

Overall

These are kinda hit or miss except Moine Oloroso is never a miss 🤤🤤🤤

Cheers!

Simon from S&P