Bunnahabhain 40 Years Rare Find 1980

Bunnahabhain 40 Years Old Rare Find 1980 is a limited-edition Bunnahabhain single malt, bottled by the Gleann Mór Spirits Company for the Rare Find range. The whisky was distilled in 1980 and matured in a refill sherry butt for 40 years. It was bottled in 2020 at a cask strength of 45.2%. Bunnahabhain is one of the nine active distilleries on Islay. It was founded in 1881 by William Robertson together with the brothers William and James Greenlees. The village of Bunnahabhain was founded at the same time to house the distillery’s workers. Bun na h-Abhainne is Gaelic for ‘foot of the river’, referring to the Margadale Spring from which the distillery sources its water. Production at the distillery started in 1883. Bunnahabhain was in the ownership of Highland Distilleries Company Limited for most of its existence, until Edrington took over Highland Distillers in 1999 and mothballed Bunnahabhain for a short period. Not long after, Burn Stewart Distillers acquired the distillery and launched a major rebrand of its core range. Bunnahabhain has been in the hands of the South African company Distell since 2014.