Highland Park 1978 29 Year Old Sherry Cask Douglas Laing Platinum Selection

Highland Park 14 Year Old 1997 Exclusive Casks CWC

Here is another HP from the Creative Whisky Company, this time bottled in their Exclusive Casks range, meaning it was finished on an extraordinary cask, in this case a Pedro Ximenez sherry cask, which explains the dark color. The king of sherry, PX, immediately dominates the nose. Raisins in syrup and fresh figs on top, with maple syrup and some...

Score 86/100

Highland Park 2001

Travel Retail remains a very important market for whisky. Loads of expressions are even created especially for the duty free range. Highland Park has a couple of those vintages. I previously tried the 1990, 1994 and 1998. Now it is time to try the 2001, bottled in 2012. The nose is surprisingly sweet on honey, vanilla and candied ginger. Nice...

Score 83/100

Highland Park Dark Origins

Like an omen foretelling the death of your favourite entry level drams, or a new stellar mark-up: NAS, the acronym that sends shivers down the spine of most whisky enthusiasts. Seemingly whenever a NAS is announced, distillers are about to retire (or at least reduce the availability significantly) a classic, or cash in on our eagerness to pay good...

Score 86/100

Highland Park Cask strength edition

I first tried this whisky at a friends house and I was mesmerized. A big mouth-coating sweetnes with butterscotch and sultanas was tremendous without a drop of water in it. I bought a bottle for myself, partly because I really enjoyed it when I sampled it and partly because it is released exclusively in Sweden and I happen to like Highland park...

Score 79/100