Bunnahabhain 10 yo 'Batch 22' (50.1%, That Boutique-y Whisky Company, 2019, 1161 bottles)
Colour: deep gold. Nose: probably some subtle sherry at play, it's all rather bready, rounded, gently earthy, mineral and with rather a lot of peanuts - for many years I've been finding peanuts in Bunnahabhain - beyond that there's sandalwood, gorse and a little hessian. Feels rather firm and rugged in a positive way. With water: chocolate, wet leaves, mixed nuts, cereals, bracken. An impression of petrichor and damp forests which I'm always a fan of. Mouth: indeed, leathery, slightly creamy and nutty sherry with smaller notes of chocolate, cocoa powder, milky cornflakes and rapeseed oil. Feels like a rather industrial and muscular whisky, which shouldn't be surprising and Bunnahabhain is no big jessie! Some caramel and coffee now too. With water: toasted brown bread with butter, samphire, stout beer, other old school bitter ales, malt loaf and a dollop of Nutella. Finish: medium and again rather earthy, bready, chocolatey and nicely bitter and beery. Comments: very good, there's a rugged and boisterous quality about it that feels suitably 'Bunnahabhain'. I liked the rather clean and sinewy sherry.
SGP: 462 - 84 points.

Bunnahabhain 'Bn8' (58.4%, Elixir Distillers 'Elements of Islay', American oak and ex-sherry hogsheads, 1896 bottles)
Always liked this nifty little series, although I haven't really tried that many of them sadly. Colour: gold. Nose: bigger, gutsier and with a more assertive coastal impression. A feeling of blustery jetties, rubber fishing wellies and wet rope. Roasted nuts, hessian, leaf mulch, tobacco and mineral oils. I find this freshness combined with a well-balanced, restrained and clean sherry very enjoyable. Flints and minerals are also very 'Bunnahabhain' in my book. With water: this one also develops a leafy, mulchy, mineral and rather lean, sinewy profile. Hessian, cocoa and putty. Mouth: it's actually very similar to the Boutique-y in many ways, just here there's more raw power, lots of brown bread but spread with treacle, lanolin, lapsing souchong tea with lemon, crushed aspirin. If you want to understand what power without peat in whisky is, you could do worse than try this sabre-toothed Bunny. With water: golden syrup, sultanas, some gruff and gravelly minerals, wee leathery touches and a rather peppery bite. Finish: good length, a little grubbiness, some gamey notes, earthy, instant coffee and black pepper. Comments: the sherry had plenty to say here, but overall I think it's very good. You probably just need to be in the mood for a wrestle.
SGP: 472 - 86 points.

Bunnahabhain 22 yo 1997/2020 (51.3%, The Whisky Exchange 'Single Casks', cask #5448, hogshead, 199 bottles)
Colour: deep gold. Nose: looks like we've struck peat. This very specific impression of damp, leafy smoke, bonfire embers, charred shellfish, ink, tar and embrocations. Was this a sherry hogshead? It speaks with a rather sherried accent. Also some lighter toned underneath of beach sand and seaweed. With water: more herbal, sooty and ethereally smoky. Metal polish, steel wool, camphor and fir wood. Really good. Mouth: deeply tarry, mentholated and unctuous. Could almost be some kind of old Ardbeg with these big peppery, leathery and tarry aspects. Lots of burnt rope, creel nets, black olives and brine. Really excellent and impressive! With water: doubles down on this wonderfully dry smokiness, cured game meats, herbal ointments and tinctures, resinous peat smoke and wood ashes. Also more natural tar, rope and black pepper. Finish: long, leafy, smoky, tarry, salty and with more wonderful notes of black olive, brine, peat and pepper. Comments: these stocks are really starting to shine, a shame there aren't too many around it seems. This one has definite echoes of old Ardbeg about it. A great surprise.
SGP: 467 - 90 points.