Bunnahabhain Cruach Mhona Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (1000ml)

This heavily peated Bunnahabhain was released exclusively for duty free retail. Too often travel-only offers seem to be lacklustre, even inferior bottlings, or else products that simply have not hit the target on the domestic market and so get repackaged and dumped for impulse purchase elsewhere.

We managed to secure a small quantity of this limited release Bunnah' without traveling abroad, and are pleased to report that it certainly doesn't taste like distressed stock!

In case you're wondering, "Cruach-Mhona" (pronounced Cru-ach Vhona) means 'peat stack' in Scots Gaelic. Bottled at 50% Alc./Vol., with natural colour and no chill filtration.

Tasting notes: Very pale straw colour. First pass features ginger biscuit, nutmeg and cocoa. Then the sweet peat is drawn out combining old liquorice strap with wet wool, lanolin and flashes of burning eucalpyt. Minutes later, a third pass reveals hints of vinyl and solvent. A diverse sniff indeed! Entry is textural and slightly oily; spices are restrained, mid palate is mildly fruity before choc-chip cookie and lanolin emerge followed by a smoked choc-fudge finish. Concludes dry, mildly tannic and textural with a delicious dark chocolate farewell. A Bunnah' that will take you by surprise. One for chocolate fanatics and peat freaks too! 50% Alc./Vol.