Highland Park 1968 36 Year Old Duncan Taylor

Highland Park 18 Year Old

I don’t have a lot to say about this malt from my handwritten notes, but that’s probably because I was enjoying the whisky so much. Rose gold in colour and a rich fruity aroma replete with blackcurrants and cherries, with a supporting cast of sherry, butter and sandal wood. A full bodied dram with a little more attack than I expected. The fruit...

Score 95/100

Highland Park 1990/2010 20 Year Old

Highland Park distillery is located in Kirkwall on Orkney and is Scotland’s northernmost whisky distillery. It was founded in 1798, presumably by Magnus Eunson; however the distillery did not obtain a license until 1826. Apparently the name of the whisky produced does not refer to the area of Scotland known as The Highlands but rather to the fact...

Score 81/100

Highland Park St. Magnus 12 Year Old

This 12 Year Old Saint Magnus, the second release of the Earl Magnus trilogy, is the only one still available from the HP website (but then do not ship outside the UK), because of the large number of bottles. The other two, the 15 Year Old Earl Magnus on 5.976 bottles and the 18 Year Old Earl Haakon on 3.300 bottles, are all long gone. They fetch...

Score 83/100

Highland Park SMWS 4.216

This independent bottling of Highland Park was distilled on Nov. 30, 1995 and aged 19 years in an ex bourbon refill hogshead. Upon opening initially, this whiskey was very closed. At that time, I tasted it among four other independent bottlings of ex-refill HP (three 19's and two 24s) and thought it was the worst. It was very closed, astringent...

Score 93/100