The oldest Bunnahabhain to date is this Bunnahabhain 46 Year Old nicknamed Eich Bhana Lìr meaning The great waves of the God Lìr .

The whisky is from a single second-fill ex-Oloroso sherry butt selected by the Distillery Manager Andrew Brown. It has been maturing in warehouse #4 since mid-1969.

Bunnahabhain 46 yo 1969 ‘ Eich Bhana Lìr’ (41,8%, OB 2017, Oloroso butt, 198 btl.)

Nose: lots of lovely hints of beeswax and manuka honey, then baked apples and orange water, blackcurrants, moving towards mango and pineapples. Sweet cinnamon. Gingerbread and almond paste. Old leather and cedar...