Highland Park 13 Year Old Single Cask Master of Malt

Highland Park 30 Year Old

Nose: Toffee, oregano, spearmint, a whiff of sherry, raisins, salty ocean breeze, Earl Grey tea, graham crackers, milk chocolate fudge, s'mores, almonds, gremolata, a bit of smoke, charcoal, hay, toasted oak, and even a smoked salmon note. Incredibly earthy with plenty of sweetness. Taste: Sweet and tart. Honey, salted caramel, figs, mint, roasted...

Score 97/100

Highland Park SMWS 4.195

Highland Park does some questionable stuff and some pretty awesome stuff at the same time. The older HPs (18, 21, 25, 30) are all pretty awesome in my opinion. All this other business with vikings and the NAS stuff is by and large quite questionable in my opinion. With the exception of Thor, mind you. That's a peach. So I don't really know what to...

Score 88/100

Highland Park 1998

I am working feverishly on my summer vacation plans, so what better to sip than a vacation dram? That is why I am putting three Highland Park vintages for Travel Retail (although they can be obtained elsewhere as well) next to each other: the 1998, 1994 and 1990, all of them bottled in 2010. Let me start with the youngest, sporting a yellow label....

Score 85/100

Highland Park Dark Origins

In my experience I have found HP to have an awful lot of batch variance in their releases, particularly their standard 12YO. Sometimes it's a rich smokey experience, other times I've found it rather bland. The 18YO is generally excellent, (although I've had some samples of that which were not as great as they should have been) and have also been...

Score 88/100