Vanilla and orchard fruit intertwined with earthy peat hints and brine — three casks integrated
Smooth, full — tropical fruit, cinnamon, chocolate cake, dried fruit, tangy oak — quarter century depth
Medium-long — coffee, ginger, oak, pepper, milk chocolate — Lumsden's masterwork
Glenmorangie 25 Quarter Century — bourbon + Oloroso + Burgundy. 25 years. Lumsden. 43%.
Vanilla and orchard fruit nose. Tropical and chocolate palate. Long ginger oak finish. Multi-cask mastery.
Glenmorangie 25 earns a 9 — elegant, layered, complex at £450. Bill Lumsden's three-cask masterwork. Discontinued — secondary market only.
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