Glen Grant
Highly decorated, Bunnahabhain 18 Year Old has picked up gold medals from the World Whiskies Awards, Scotch Whisky Masters, International Wine & Spirit Competition and San Francisco World Spirits Competition.
Bottled with no colouring or chill-filtration, it’s a delectable mix of leather jackets lashed by sea spray, sticky toffee pudding, pecan pie, vanilla toffee, foam banana sweets, dried mint and an evening in the company of a glass of Oloroso, a cigar and a bowl of salted almonds.
You’ll find this legendary malt maker down a misty single-track road on the east side of Islay. Pronounced ‘boona-havn’, it’s the most northerly of the island’s distilleries and it likes to do things a little differently. Rather than chasing ever peatier and smokier styles like its neighbours, Bunnahabhain creates unpeated or lightly peated, silky smooth and creamily drinkable drams.