Bunnahabhain 10-year-old Discovery Gordon & Macphail / 43% / 0.7l
- In the spring of 2018 family owned whisky specialist Gordon & MacPhail (founded 1895) announced cutting their whisky portfolio down from 14 whisky ranges to five.
Product description
In April 2018, renowned independent whisky publisher Gordon & MacPhail, which has been operating since 1895, announced it would be reducing its “release series” from fourteen to five.
After a few weeks, a new series, Discovery, debuted, presented with three label colors corresponding to whisky profiles. For example, Smoky with Peat was assigned a gray color, Sherry Cask Matured purple, and Bourbon Cask Matured green. On each label, we find a short tasting note and an indication of age or year of distillation. The "discovery" of August 2019 was the presented here Bunnahabhain 10 years old, a whisky with a gray label, which places it in the Smoky with Peat category.
Aroma : vanilla pudding, meringues, salted caramels, lemon jam, pears, apples, seaweed salad and peat smoke in the background.
Palate: slightly smoky, lemon tart, pears, apples, peaches, toffee, milk chocolate, vanilla, licorice, traces of leather and charred oak.
Finish : quite long, with notes of vanilla, nutmeg, ginger, sea salt, tobacco and a distant whiff of smoke.