Highland Park 15 Year Old Flat Bottle

Highland Park 10 Year Old Viking Scars

During our quasi-private tour at Highland Park in September 2022, we tasted this 10-year-old during the introduction video. Since I was given a so-called 'driver's kit', I can taste it at home at my leisure. The nose is rather sweet on all kinds of yellow fruits with an emphasis on berries. Honey with the flesh and a soft touch of campfire smoke....

Score 85/100

Highland Park Dark Origins

Well this is really a shift from the norm by Highland Park. I did not really know what to expect after all the hype but I was not disappointed. This is a fabulous dessert whisky. On the nose there is delicious sherry spice with lots of fruit and nut. The palate offers a hint of peat smoke followed by loads of dark chocolate and cherries. Lots of...

Score 85/100

Highland Park 25 Year Old

I opened this glorious expression last New Year's Eve which was really my way of telling my friends and family how special they were to me. A thick syrupy nose, dripping with dark honey, chocolate, char grilled tangerines, breakfast marmalade and that scrumptious layer of burnt sugar found on top of a perfectly cooked caramel pudding. I was so...

Score 93/100

Highland Park 18 Year Old 1988 for Bennachie

Bennachie is the name of a mountain range in Scotland, but also of a (no longer operational) independent bottler. They used to have their own ‘pure malts’ on the market (a 10 and 17 year old), but from time to time also bottled single casks. This Highland Park 1988 is a good example. The sherry cask yielded 528 bottles. Sherry and peat – even...

Score 88/100