Laphroaig 25 Years Old 1998/2024 Bourbon Barrel #10495 Symington‘s Choice Signatory Vintage 54.9% 700ml

Details：

Distillery: Laphroaig

Bottler: Signatory Vintage (SV)

Bottling serie: Cask Strength Collection - Symington’s Choice

Vintage: 1998

Bottled: 2024

Stated Age: 25 Years Old

Casktype: Bourbon Barrel

Casknumber: 10495

Number of bottles: 178

Strength: 54.9%

Size: 700ml

Tasting notes：

Nose: Again an alcohol superbly integrated in this one, with typical medicinal notes, intense peat but well balanced. It seems to be more like an upgraded of a Laph 10CS, than really an old malt, as these 25yo says.
It stays super simple. I was expecting more fruits, deepness and a well melted whisky.
Far from the others I have in minds these last years.

Palate: Good entrance mouthfeel, quite bodied, full of vanilla, peat, almonds, some fruits here (finally).

Finish: Ashy notes, with strong peat, vanilla and pepper. I stay with this felling of an OB annual 10yo CS, but in better version.