So much hype for this one... | Bunnahabhain 12 Cask Strength 2022 

I very quickly bought a second bottle of this even though it's towards the top of my usual price range. It is clearly destined for modern classic status and this batch won't be around forever.

Sipping it now. Absolutely world class. Fruity, spicy. Supremely delicious! No water needed - it is that smooth. One of the best whiskies I have ever had since I started my journey in 2007.

I picked it up yesterday, 2023 version. It's sooooooo good, it made me like sherry. 😅 Great value as well.

Agree with you and every other reviewer. This is one of the best whiskies I’ve had in a long long time. I’ll be surprised if this is not the OSWA whisky of the year for 2023. Amazing stuff.

The neck pour of the B12-22 was epic but then settled into very good. I did two separate blinds comparing B12-21 & B12-22… The 22 might be “ better” but I preferred the 2021 each time. Cheers 🥃

I bought my Dad a bottle of this for his Birthday last month. It would have been rude of me not to try it and if you like a sherried whisky, this is up there with the best I’ve tasted. My Dad also loved it and chose it over a Glendronach 15yr Cask Strength in a blind taste. He described it as Christmas cake in a glass. I personally feel it’s also a reasonable price here in the UK given the quality at £75. Highly recommended!

£70-75 in UK with local tax (VAT). I have three, but one is open and I'm hovering over a fourth. It's better than the 21 imo.

This fruity bakery whiskey sounds delicious! Grandma approved! You are right on about recent standard 12 missing the earthiness of past years. Great info!

Congrats on scoring a couple bottles. I bought 4, and, along with the Benromach 10 Cask Strength from last year, it’s the best I tried in 2022. One thing though…it’s very winey in flavor and sometimes I’m not in the mood for that, but when I am it’s a big beauty. Just superb.

No Bunna CS around here. But it's cool. Even though I wish it was, I don't think my palate is quite there yet to enjoy cask strength whiskies (although I'm practicing with the Glenfarclas 105 I got as a gift... it was a gift, can't complain). I'll gladly wait for the Tamdhu 12 I just ordered... gotta climb that ladder slowly. Cheers!

Concur!! This stuff is so good, it's off the charts. I got a bottle two weeks ago from an online retailer in Germany for 108 euros.

I'd love to get this somehow, even a sample of it. Never had a chance to buy this anywhere in Germany. Seeing how I love the Bunna 12 as is, I can only imagine how much more of everything it is.

Oh will it ever hit little old New Zealand??? I bloody hope so. Loved the granny! In a wholesome way, obvi😂

Great review. The 2021 was really just an amped up version of the standard 12 year. Still delicious and super drinkable. Me and a group of friends finished it in 1 night. The 2022 is a totally different whisky that stands on its own and is probably more in profile with whiskies of the past with the earthiness and strong cask influence. The quality is hard to beat for the price. I loaded up. 🥃

Have 2 bottles in the stash ... very pleased I am. If you are looking out for a whisky to give a bit of love to, the Glen Elgin 12yo is a nice every day dram that carries a bit more than you expect and is a good little bottle. Like your Craigallachie 13yo, it's one of those under the radar bottles. It's no 91 (oops, sorry) - 92 pointer but bang for buck it's solid.

Hi Geoff ! Bunna is superrrrrr ,good job man ) like ! Cheers !!!

I'm glad this is grandma approved, my lola didn't like the 2021 release, and it really drove a wedge between us. I'll snag the 2022 when I see it so we can patch things up. Thanks for the review!

Hi Geoff, great review; so glad you liked this. I adore this whisky! When price is considered probably my best buy of 2022, hell it's probably my best buy regardless of price! I'm not usually a massive sherry bomb fan, but this is sweet and savoury and spicy and intense AF all at once. One thing you didn't mention was whether you tried it with water? A drop of water and it clouds up like nothing I've ever seen at well above 46% (first time I added water, it got so cloudy so quickly, I thought I'd drowned it, but nah, it's just oily AF, which I love). A note on price, I think the UK price of £60 you are quoting is the sales tax/VAT-free export price (which is what you will have paid to a UK supplier before import taxes were added at your end). The UK domestic price with VAT (sales tax) added is typically £70-75, which is still great value for the experience. This is a future modern classic IMO and like you, I've stocked up. I was lukewarm on Bunna as a distillery before trying this but it's totally won me over. Hope the 2023 edition is as good.

Great review. Had the same experience even in the states - couldn’t find it, ordered from the UK. Worth every penny. Agree with you on value now and afraid what the price will be in even 2 years.

Thanks for reviewing this one, Geoff. Haven't tried the 2022 version. Reason: not affected by FOMO combined with an attack of ultimate laziness... (sorry, got nothing better). Slàinte mhath

thx for the review Geoff. In my market its 2x the price of the standard 12. Out of my reach unfortunately despite how amazing it may be.

Hi Geoff, luckily I got my 2022 version last year at my local specialist shop for €80, now if one can buy it, even online its jumped in price. Good review, slàinte Geoff.

Great to hear another positive review of the 2022 edition. I was a little (only a little) disappointed with the 2021... so this is reassuring. Cheers 🥃

Have one of these put away. When the 2021 was released I got so excited I paid way too much to order from the UK right away. Later it made it to California for a very reasonable price. The 2021 is perfectly fine but not as good as I was expecting. When this 2022 was released to such fanfare I waited for it to make it here and bought one. Cheers

This is one I really want to get my hands on. I loved Laphroaigs Cairdeas 2021 Sherry CS. I also recently had An Orkney 12yr CS 56.4abv Sherry from "The Single Malts of Scotland" that was super dark, slightly peated, just awesome.

you are really a Bunnahabhain ture lover

Great vid, as ever! Thanks! I bought two bottles of this when it came out direct from the distillery. Frustratingly they dropped the price by about 15 pounds a month or two after launch. I live in Canada so sent to by buddy in the UK. I gave him one and one was to come to me when and if he can ever be bothered to visit. In short, I'll probably never taste this😢

Very little water causes Scotch mist better than most other whiskies, I bought three bottles immediately after watching Ralfys review. Glad I did, it’s a great dram

Amazing stuff, this one is definitly one of my favorite whiskies! Thanks for the review!

Your review tells me, the 2022 Bunna 12 CS is great and the score reflects that. I will never know how different the 2022 release is from the 2021 release which I currently have. I will keep an eye out on travels and maybe I will get lucky to find a bottle of 2022 Bunna 12 CS.

Bought it for $90. Very much looking forward to it.

I searched and searched and searched for this one from 2021 onwards. I always have a bottle of the 18 open and really enjoy it as an alternative to those deep plummy character sherry whiskies. Being mostly or exclusively PX, it is a little lighter and more citrus and possibly more complex. Even last week, my local store in Netherlands offered to order one for me only to then let me know the local distributor was sold out. I was unhappy. One day later I walk into one of my regular shops where I go and there they have the 2023 on the shelf. Bought it immediately. What I can say is the price has increased - a LOT. Just under 100 euros for the bottle but I thought I need one. Haven't tasted it yet but it is one of my most anticipated whiskies of the past 2 years.

Enjoyed your enthusiasm for it, Geoff. It’s full Oloroso maturation, although the 46.3%er still gets a wee bit (20/25%) Bourbon Barrel. 😁👍🥃

Hi mate, great review and as always love your humour. I loved the 1st edition so do the 1st grandma. After seeing your review, I will try the 2nd GRAND........NO...NO....NO.....I mean Bunna. YES! Bunna CS 2nd Ed that i will try. Thanks for a great review.

Great review as always Geoff! I love Bunnahabhain but I do hate Oloroso influence in whisky. We got this as a group and will taste at the end of the month so hearing that this is more oloroso heavy I'm gonna wait and see how it fares. Cheers dude!

Hello Geoff, Funny Fact: I opened a Bottle of this 2Days ago to celebrate the paid Days off (Some call it Easter🤷) here in Germany. I loved it from the Start. All other positive Points are already been told by many People. Great Stuff. Thanks for sharing your Opinion about this Bottling. Greets from Germany 😎🤘

Really hope this makes it to Oregon

I finally cracked this one open together with my wife....what can I say....a real masterpiece!

High praise from the Geaoffster. I've a bottle in the stash, but I'm not going to go overboard and open it just yet. (Trying to buy less but not succeeding.) Might the GWhisky cooling on Bunna be because the - my term - "funny" second maturation casks are beginning to dominate? Wouldn't it be nice, just occasionally, to see a bourbon matured spirit, bottled at the right time?

I would love to see you review, or get some of your thoughts on American single malts. I've enjoyed your scotch reviews for sometime now. I really dig how concise your content is.

Great review Geoff nothing to add it is spectacular single malt. I was lucky to get it for $80 in US. It's my special occasion Friday night dram, cheers

Great review. Delicius whisky. Thnx

Świetna recenzja, miałem wrażenie, że ten odcinek miał być banem na hajp z tą butelką związany ale do tej opcji serio ciężko się przyczepić. Pyszna, mocna whisky w cenie niejednego słabego malta :) 92 ocena trochę przesadzona ale solidne 89 to i tak informacja, że warto kupić zwłaszcza, że jest jeszcze dostępna :) z innej beczki to ten kanał wyrasta na jeden z moich ulubionych i przepraszam, że piszę w języku polskim ale chcę pokazać zasięg tego kanału i trzymam kciuki za rozwój :) jak ktoś będzie chciał to sobie odpali translator :D

This is good bottle 😊

I get straight fudge when i drink this. But not a mass produced cheap fudge a proper home made refined fudge made with real un-refined brown pure cane sugar. Its super rich, syrupy but has an deep earthy, almost smoke whispering essence lurking in the back. Fantastic stuff.

Damn you for making me buy more and more bottles.

This is so good- like liquid candy, caramel, cake, etc. But the best thing is that my hamster’s name is Puck Bunnahabhain

have you reviewed any cowabunga dudes whiskies? 🤔

JAJAJAJAJA!!! Man, I laughed so hard! Nice review, Geoff. Cheers!

Nothing wrong with the 2021 to many people thought it would be the standard 12 yr at cask strength and it wasn't. But yes the 2022 was good also 🙂

Great video as always. It is hyped though. It really is. I have a bottle and I'm enjoying it but I have the same reservation as our friend Whisky Lock. Here in the U.K it casts twice the price as the regular 12 and when you add water to it it doesn't taste that much different. That's quite a lot of money for some abv. That's my reservation. I suppose I'm saying that good old fashioned Bunnahabhain 12 is a cracker of a whisky which works great at 46% and half the price. That's two for the price of one. I'm glad I got the Cask Strength and I'm enjoying it but I don't think I'll buy another unless the price comes down. WT

@Gwhisky I’m heading back to the UK in a couple of weeks, and I’m looking at buying something nice and I’m torn between this and an Ardnamurchan sherry cask… they’re both similarly priced, which would you go for? There’s an additional factor too: the Bunna cask 2023 might be getting released soon, so maybe I should wait for that and see if it’s even better? I’ll also be going back to UK for Xmas and might by then have the choice between the ‘22 and ‘23.

Journey…. journey of an alcoholic 😂))) sir sorry, Ralph’s mention, could not help my self

just orded a bottle of bunna 12 cs..and a bottle of Kilkerran 12.....

ooh it's bunny day again! Just got the regular 12 a week ago thanks to your resounding review (and yep, it's very good)...have you tried the Cruach-Mhòna? I'm considering ordering a bottle

this is 73 to 80 british pounds inc vat [tax ] NOT in the 60 pound range ;; good review thanks ;

Wish I could try this but sadly it isn't available in Canada

Cannot get this in Belgium

How you rate this against 18 years old as they are similar priced.

OK, I will buy a 2022 version to see how it compare to the 2021 that I own. The 2021 is already incredible, so I can't go wrong... Cheers

$!50 in Japan. Ouch, but I may still buy it if I can find it. I enjoy hearing about how different the pricing is in Taiwan as Japan also has good deals on some whiskies while others are way overpriced.

Great Review once again… Its currently selling in US (east coast) for $119… Is this still a good value at that price ?

Hey G, great review. Can i ask where you bought it? I can't see it for less than £73.99 in the UK.

perhaps the relative earthiness of the former was a contrast with what you were drinking then?

Not arrived in Sweden yet, sorry to say

lolol youve been reading my file

Damn. It looks like word it out as prices have already gone up in the Uk. 74 quid on MoM. Thoughts on it at that price? Cheers

Could this be the whisky that knocks Springbank 12cs off its long held “best whisky in show” perch?

Its my next buy.

glad its better than the standard 12 , which is sad and flat like most distillery 12 and 15 's ,, indy bottlers are streets ahead and cheaper , but the reviews are good on this so might try it ;; sorry to sound off - but an older bunna12 i tried was good , but the newer one i bought was c....p ,

Modern Bunna i find underwhelming - the feis bottlings are pretty erratic and very random. Its decent but meh.....price point for a 12 CS seems crazy....and any distillery character? Seems very cask/wood orientated?

Wow, this is selling for around $170 in Singapore.

It will be 150 $US (200 $cA) by the time B12CS reaches the shores of the Dominion. . . maybe batch 3 --- or batch 4, or someday 5 ... soon, in 2025 perhaps . . . unpeated Islay, let me see, aha , found it: allow me to settle for my B'Laddie 40yr for 450$CA from 2003....

different background colour different wardrobe pls

Memaw~😂

I'm a stupid idiot because I only bought 3 bottles! I now only have 1 left and I can't find it anywhere. Super sad.

91 (your voice) or 92 (picture said) :-) Doesn´t really matter...

I’m so disappointed with your review Geoff. Everybody has told me it was great, and then you come along with your mealy mouthed half hearted uncertainties.