Bunnahabhain 10 Year Old 2012 North Star Spirits Single Ex-Bourbon Cask (2022) Series 23 70cl

Bunnahabhain 10 Year Old 2012 North Star Spirits Single Ex-Bourbon Cask (2022) Series 23 70cl

1 of 227 Bottles

A single cask Bunnahabhain 2012 bottled as a 10-year-old without colouring or chill filtration by North Star Spirits in 2023 for their Cask Series 023.

This 2012 Bunnahabhain 10-year-old was bottled from a single ex-bourbon barrel that yielded 227 bottles at a hefty natural cask strength of 58.2%. Youngish Bunnahabhain is always a joy, especially at full strength; this ex-bourbon cask should allow the distillery's pristine spirit to really sing.

About Bunnahabhain

The Bunnahabhain distillery is located in the northeast of the island of Islay on the water that separates the islands of Islay and Jura. The distillery is the most northerly located on the island and has a beautiful view of the "Paps of Jura". Bunnahabhain comes from the Gaelic and means "Mouth of the river". The distillery was built at the mouth of the Margadele River. The first new spirit left the distillery in the year 1882. Little has changed or modernized the distillery to this day. Only the malting floors have been removed and in 1963 two stills were added. In the stillhouse there are two wash stills and two spirit stills. They are relatively small stills and they are heated with steam. The six washbacks are made of Oregon pine. No specific wood is used for maturing the malts at Bunnahabhain, to prevent it from influencing the character of the malt too much. A mix of bourbon, sherry and refill casks is used. Like all other distilleries on Islay, Bunnahabhain also obtains its malt from the Port Ellen malthouse. The big difference with the other distilleries on Islay is that Bunnahabhain does not dry the malt with peat but with warm air. As a result, this Islay malt has no smoke or peat flavour. The water to make the malt comes from a water source on Margadale Hill. The water from this source is pumped up from a great depth and led to the distillery via a pipeline. This is to prevent the water from coming into contact with peat.

About North Star Spirits 

Astronomy plays a massive part in the storytelling narrative of our core whisky range. Our vision is reflected in our company name. The North Star is the anchor of the northern sky. It is a landmark, or sky marker, that helps those who follow it determine direction as it glows brightly to guide and lead toward a purposeful destination. It also has a symbolic meaning, for the North Star depicts a beacon of inspiration and hope to many. North Star focuses its energies on the curiosities, peculiar oddities, and obscurities - whisky as it comes, straight from the cask and into a bottle - without any fancy tricks.

58.2% ABV

70cl