Bunnahabhain 1966-2003 - 36 Year Old - Duncan Taylor - Rare Auld - Single Cask 4874

INFORMATION

Bunnahabhain 1966 - 2003. 36 Year Old. Bottled by Duncan Taylor for their Rare Auld series. Cask number 4874. One of 222 bottles. 700ml. 40.7%.

One of a string of extraordinary single casks of 1966 Bunnahabhain released by Duncan Taylor in the early years of this century. Cask 4874 was bottled in 2003 at its cask strength of 40.7% and remains one of the most difficult to find of these legendary bottlings.

DISTILLERY:Bunnahabhain

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:40.7%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

Bottle PRODUCED:222

BOTTLER:Duncan Taylor

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK NUMBER:4874

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Islay

DISTILLED YEAR:1966

BOTTLING DATE::2003

AGE:36

Bunnahabhain was founded in 1881, the same year as the other traditionally unpeated Islay whisky, Bruichladdich. Bunnahabhain was owned by Highland Distillers for over a century; when Edrington took full control in 1999 the distillery was mothballed, and in 2003 Bunnahabhain was sold to Burn Stewart Distillers. Distell International bought Burn Stewart in 2013 after previous owners CL Financial went bust.

Highland Distillers bottled Bunnahabhain’s unpeated Islay malt whisky as a 12-year-old from the 1970s onwards. Burn Stewart added older expressions to the core range and now release many single casks and limited editions, some of which use peated Bunnahabhain, which has been produced since the late 1990s. In 2010 the bottling strength of Bunnahabhain’s whiskies was increased to 46.3% and colouring and chill filtration were discontinued; sales increased by 160% over the next ten years. Independent bottlings of both unpeated and peated Bunnahabhain are easy to find and generally high quality.