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The Service and your account are for your personal use only and may not be shared with any third parties. This is nowhere more obvious than at the distillery visitor centre, with a myriad of expressions on offer. Wandering around Finlaggan’s historical ruins of a meeting house, chapel, and various other structures long since demolished prompted us to stop and consider the kinds of things that these sorts of places are very good at prompting. This distinction is key to how expectations in whisky continue to raise us up, befuddle us, and sometimes come crashing down on our earnestly eager heads. Although, if you are actually driving please skip the snifters as they’re a sure fire way to end up in a ditch, or off the side of the cliff leading to the distillery.We've created the Two Whisky Bros Dram Club to help you get access to high quality, rare whisky by the dram. But, I remain wonderfully and pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed just being on Islay for a few days, soaking it in, and enjoying the slower pace of life that the Scottish islands usually and wonderfully offer. A very exciting proposition for us as having been lucky enough to have been to several tastings with Brendan we’re very aware of just how good and knowledgeable he is. We build up bottles in our eagerly anticipating brains to levels that defy anything approaching common sense.

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The distillery arrives a little late to the party, I’d say, as so many other distilleries offer a cask strength version of (some of) their core range expressions. I’m a big Bunnahabhain fan, if it wasn’t already painfully obvious (but not an uncritical one), so take my perspective here with that in mind.They all offer lots of opportunities to follow common threads and signatures and their myriad transformations across variable casks, ages, ABVs, OBs, and IBs. There’s a touch of leather milling around the middle of the nose here, with small blasts of orange zests in the background. Perhaps a new whisky alongside Bunnahabhain and Bruichladdich; a non-peated malt with less difficult pronunciation, perhaps? If you terminate your account, you will no longer have access to the Service and your Contributions (specified below), if any.

Bunnahabhain is a robust and complex spirit, unpeated and oily but with sweet notes of dried fruits and cereal, and it means that the spirit can really take on the big flavour profiles that come from the full maturation in the sherry casks.At Bunnahabhain, while peat levels have dropped from the 1960s onwards, they did start life smokier than today, something which has been revived with peated campaigns from the distillery since its re-introduction by Iain McMillan. It had some identifiable Bunnahabhain elements, but if I had it blind, I definitely wouldn’t have pegged it as the amped-up cask strength version of my beloved 12yo. The nose undiluted is very yeasty, there’s also melted butter on a crumpet, some black pepper, raisins, prunes, and stewed fruits. Bunnahabhain’s master distiller, Brendan McCarron, said: "We’re really proud of this exceptional release, which is a perfect encapsulation of our most celebrated expression.