n: Musty fruit

p:  Candied prunes and sawdust.  A solid easy sipper.

B/B+

Side by side with the 43% version gives this one a little edge. 

n:  Wood finish drying in a room of antique furniture.  Pool water.

p:  Holy cow!  A flavor bomb that is sweet and complex.  Mint and Spanish cedar.  One of the best of the 25 series from that era.  

A-/A 

This adds to the irrefutable mounting evidence that 1974 was the best year in the history of everything. 

n:  Faint potting soil, lavedar toffee

p:  Delicately earthy.  Minty jolly rancher.

Highly quaffable. 

n: Roasted almonds and caramel

p:  Slightly bitter creme brulee

B/B+ 

n:  metallic and musty

p:  Cured meats and nuts.  Thick mouthfeel.  Just a great example of a whisky being simple but doing a solid job of it.  Finish peters out a bit though. 

n: Rich and massive.  Plums, prunes, and a hint of Christmas spices in a  room with antique furniture.

p:  Hot and spicy. Berry pie, perhaps blackberry/cherry mix that isn't bitter or sweet.  With the crust that didn't skimp on the butter.  It starts strong but falls apart fairly fast.  Almost holds out to an A-, but not quite. 

B+/A- 

n:  Apple skins and trail mix

p: Fruit salad, light on the sugar. Salt lemon zest finish.  None of the funk that was in the 2017 edition. 

n:  Motor oil and fruit salad

p: soft peat.  Soil, wax, and olive oil.  Easy sipper

B/B+ 

n: Irish coffee topped with chocolate sprinkles

p:  Thick mouthfeel with a LOT of flavor.  Almost seems like condensed whisky.  Toffee and caramel. Blackberry pie (not tart.)  Wow, chewy.  Love it.

n:  Earthy and dank.

p:   Potpourri and dark chocolate.  Red hot finish.  Great whisky but a bit hot.  Perhaps a little more time and this whisky becomes an "A".

B/B+