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BUNNAHABHAIN 30 YO 52.8% THE KINSHIP FEIS ILE 2018 Bunnahabhain 30 Year Old Hunter Laing Kinship / Feis Ile 2018 To celebrate the impending completion of their Ardnahoe distillery on Islay, Hunter Laing?released a second selection of six Kinship?bottlings?in 2018, following on from the original?collection in 2017. It is now an annual release. The 2018 Kinship collection was released exclusively to visitors of Islay’s Feis Ile festival, and were available to buy at the Ardnahoe gift shop. The other five featured distilleries are Islay’s Bowmore and Laphroaig, islander’s Jura and Highland Park, and Campbeltown’s Springbank. Casks were hand selected by Jim McEwan. This Bunnahabhain was bottled from two sherry hogsheads and is one of 372 bottles. An austere piece of Victorian architecture on the north-east coast of Islay, Bunnahabhain is a relative outsider on the island, traditionally known for producing an un-peated single malt. The majority of this was used for blending, as was its initial intended purpose. The distillery was shut for 2 years in 1982 following the market downturn of the period, and despite being revived at low production, it was eventually officially bottled as a single malt later that decade, with the self-deprecating tag-line, “the un-pronounceable malt.”