Review #55: Bunnahabhain Moine 5yr 2006/2012, C#800041, 61.1% abv, 261 bottles

resuming from technical difficulties

So, it turns out that Caol Ila is bad for laptops. (Fucking Diageo.) Obstacles have been surmounted, however, and now I'm back to posting here at the TastingDome. I have a bunch of things I managed to write on scraps of paper, so I'll just type all of them out, I guess, if I can read my own handwriting. First up is a very young Bunna.

nose: starts off dry and smoky, with hints of cardboard, but then switches to bacon. Rich, fatty bacon, and then coastal notes -- seaweed, sea salt. Maybe a little ashy, as if the bacon got overcooked. I'll give it a few minutes to see if anything else turns up ... Smoked pears, some vanilla and lanolin.

palate: like a lawn mower that caught on fire. creamy, too.

finish: oily and sweet.

This isn't what I expected. I expected mouth-burning phenols, weird beery notes, and angry pears. This is actually pretty pleasant, especially if you like bacon. I had heard this was newmake-y, and if that's so then I like newmake. It was aggressive on the palate, but the sweetness bails it out.

score: 83