Ardmore 25 Year Old Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml)

Discontinued. Very limited stocks.

Released in 2010 as a travel retail exclusive, like the Ardmore 30 Year Old, this was phased out following a more recent branding makeover, so it's now a collectable. You get some classic Highland peaty notes alongside fruit and confectionary. Non chill filtered. 51.4% Alc./Vol.

Other reviews... A 25 year old box of chocolates: coffee creams, fudge, orange cream, they are all in there... The nose might be ordinary: What follows is anything but. 89.5 points - Jim Murrays Whisky Bible 2020

... Colour: white wine. Nose: it’s a rather rounder, more vanilla-ed version, with also more fudge and mint cake as well as rather less smoke. Unexpected whiffs of lemon sherbet and then almonds, maraschino and, indeed, peaches but rather the tree’s leaves than the fruits… With water: we get closer to the 1992 (that one was reduced) but this has a little more grass and grains. Mouth (neat): it’s rather more indistinct than the 1992, partly because the oak is much louder. It’s not oaky as such, but there’s a lot of coconut and you have to like, say pina colada. Hem… Other than that, I get the same combination of juicy garden fruits and smoke, even if that smoke’s a little softer. Also oranges, jelly beans, rosewater... With water: same comments. Maybe a bigger dryness, green tea… Finish: medium, greener, with more tea and herbs. Is this rosemary? More citrus fruits as well, the aftertaste being just as clean and fresh as the 1992’s. Quite zesty, in fact. Comments: we’re in the same ballpark. Very nice dram – I can’t wait to taste the fairly recent official 30yo.
84 points - Serge Valentin, whiskyfun.com