This is the 2014 edition of Laphroaig 25 Year Old . There have been earlier editions (2007, 2009) and new editions in 2015 and 2016 as well.

It was matured in a combination of first-fill Oloroso Sherry casks and ex-American bourbon barrels, before being bottled at cask strength.

Laphroaig 25 yo ‘Cask Strength’ (45,1%, OB 2014)

Nose: a slightly restrained, but nicely farmy nose. Wet dogs, embering coal ashes. Mellow peat. Something of melted butter. A little vanilla. Sweet hints of lychee syrup underneath. Then back to drier, more medicinal notes (iodine, hessian), but always with a jammy...