Bunnahabhain 1988 SV

Overall rating: 88.08/100
votes: 51

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Bunnahabhain
Bottler: Signatory Vintage (SV)
Bottling serie: Cask Strength Collection
Vintage: 10.10.1988
Bottled: 30.07.2013
Stated Age: 24 years old
Casktype: Refill Sherry Butt
Casknumber: 2800
Number of bottles: 588
Strength: 55.9 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml
Added on: 16 Nov 2013 12:42 pm

Average value

€ 165.00

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Whisky Reviews for Bunnahabhain 1988 SV

5 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 88.08 points

MrRancho scored this whisky 88 points
20 Mar 2016 4:26 pm
Very good Bunna! Good mix between sherry, wood and smoke!

Nose

Dried fruits, sultanas, cocoa, sea air, salt, lemon, some ashtray, against later also kelp, grass, soil.

Taste

Grape juice, wood, some ashtray, salt.

Finish

Relativ lang, holzig, rauchig.
Tom na Gruagaich scored this whisky 90 points
11 Feb 2019 10:01 pm

Nose: dark sherry, sweet, slightly "dirty" notes, distinct oak notes. Mouth: strong, oak, peat, salt, ash, rather tart than sweet. The nose pretends to be something.
Finish: dry oak, peat, ash, Tabal, leather, bitter-sweet, some menthol. An extraordinary drop
Gilles_V scored this whisky 93 points
14 Nov 2016 11:27 pm
A nose close to its neighbor opposite (Isle of Jura) interesting but not extraordinary. A body and a final which astonish by their power: close to the neighbors of the South of the island. A whisky that hides his game well, with a nose with finesse but a body while muscle. Excellent.

Nose

In the order of appearance: 1. sherry 2. trace of iodine 3. banana and cocoa

Taste

salt, peat quite present, strength and character

Finish

persistent final
Murxus scored this whisky 88 points
03 May 2016 11:48 pm

After more than half a year from bottle opening and half the bottle emptying, now finally I can fully comprehend and confirm the notes of Marko - err except for the shisha tabac ;-)
Maybe the strong sulfuric note caused some irritation to me, maybe a bigger glas like the now used Spiegelau premium snifter and the adequate amount of water was beneficial.
88/89 pts.
Marko_I did not rate this whisky
12 Jan 2016 11:21 pm
Prima whisky, exactly what I expected at distillery / age / cask / starch, for refill the sherry influence is even stronger than I would have thought.

Nose

dark chocolate, blackcurrant juice, but too much volts, that needs some water ... chocolate, cherries, peach compote, shisha tobacco ... a breeze cowshed

Taste

dark chocolate, a dry-smoky note, cough syrup, some blackcurrant / blackberry (but not fresh, goes more in the-Likör-direction), tobacco

Finish

long, bittersweet, slightly ashen, pepper

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