A'bunadh from Batch No. 22 A'bunadh bottle batch No. 27

A'bunadh is a cask-strength[1] single malt whisky from the Aberlour Distillery in Scotland.[2] Though it has no age statement, it is released in limited run batches, each batch carrying a unique number on its label. Each batch of this whisky is blended from barrels ranging from 5 to 25 years old.

A'bunadh is exclusively aged in Spanish oak Oloroso sherry butts[1] and therefore has a sweeter, softer flavor than most scotch. A'bunadh is not chill filtered.

The distillery cite the story during distillery tours that when the second pair of stills were put in during 1975, a time capsule was discovered behind the name plate, containing an 1898 newspaper about the distillery fire wrapped around an 1898 bottle of Aberlour. The workmen who discovered the bottle polished off four fifths of the bottle during their lunch break, but the remains of the bottle went off to the laboratories in Keith, Moray, and were analysed. A'bunadh is an attempt to recreate this single malt.

The name a'bunadh is described as the Scottish Gaelic for ''the original',[3] though is possibly a misspelling of am bunadh, meaning 'the origin'.[4]

Released batch numbers [ edit ]

Batch number Alcoholic strength Approximate year of bottling 1–5 59.6% 1997 6 59.9% 1999 Silver Label (12yo) 58.7% 1999 7 59.9% 2000 8 60.2% 2001 9 60% 2002 10 59.8% 2003 11 59.8% 2003 12 60% 2004 13 59.8% 2004 14 59.5% 2005 15 59.6% 2005 16 59.6% 2005 17 60.2% 2006 18 59.7% 2006 19 59.9% 2007 20 60.5% 2007 21 59.5% 2008 22 59.3% 2008 23 60.2% 2008 24 60.2% 2008 25 60.4% 2008 26 60.6% 2009 27 60.1% 2009 28 59.7% 2009 29 59.9% 2010 30 59.8% 2010 31 60.5% 2010 32 60.4% 2010 33 60.9% 2010 34 59.5% 2010 35 60.3% 2011 36 60.1% 2011 37 59.6% 2011 38 60.3% 2011 39 59.8% 2012 40 60.0% 2012 41 59.0% 2012 42 60.3% 2012 44 59.7% 2012 45 60.2% 2013 46 60.4% 2013 47 60.7% 2014 48 59.7% 2014 49 60.1% 2014 50 59.6% 2014 51 60.8% 2015 52 60.5% 2015 53 59.7% 2015 54 60.7% 2016 55 60.9% 2016 56 61.2% 2016 57 60.7% 2016 58 61.1% 2017 59 60.9% 2017 60 60.3% 2017 61 60.8% 2017 62 59.9% 2018

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