Continuing my series of whisky reviews of whiskies i had on my lat trip to Scotland, one very nice one was from a distillery i am not a fond fan... Bruichladdich. In the warehouse tour they gave us some rare straight from the cask expressions, and one of those was this 17yo Cask Strength, 2004 vintage. Matured First fill bourbon cask, poured at 60%abv. On the nose, quite interesting. Recently made rice; grapefruit, green fresh apples and fondant.  It is like an apple spice, peach halves, and recently baked brownies. After a first sip, it released the "soapy" notes from Bruichladdich. Corny; Apple juice, green Apple peel. On the palate, it was great. Peaches, sugar syrup, sawdust and apples. Brownies. Pepper and strong spiciness. Afterraste was a bit unusual for a "Laddie".  It felt charred. Ashtray, chocolate, scorching but pleasant. Dark pepper. Overall, this was a super complex great dram, that is starting to change my overall perception of this distillery since i have also had some of their "Black Arts" expressions and they were fairly good as well. Really a beautiful single malt, my score for it is 93 over 100.