Highland Park 1997 Cask Strength Gordon & Macphail

Highland Park 13 Year Old 1992 Brachadair for Crann Whisky Club

Brachadair is a Belgian bottler that I have already tasted delicious stuff from. In 2005, quite a while ago, it's true – he bottled a 13-year-old Highland Park for the Belgian whisky club Crann. Good nose! Delicious grassy notes with a lot of heather, vanilla and honey, but also some mandarins and pineapples. In the background I get some banana...

Score 86/100

Highland Park 18 Year Old

In my short time as a whisky freak, no malt has grown on me as much as Highland Park 18YO. I first had this at a bar, and was not impressed. I suppose compared to some of the peatier malts I had, it just could not stand out. Several months later, I tried a sampler bottle of the 18. Without the distraction of more overpowering malts, I thought,...

Score 92/100

Highland Park Valkyrie

The Valkyrie is the first release in the new series 'Viking Legends' from Highland Park (2018 will see the release of the Valknut - 2019 will see the release of the Valhalla). Jim Lyngvild, an expert in Norse mythology, designed the logo. It is an homage to the Valkyrie, the shield maidens of Odin, who offered their god mead from a horn. Anyway,...

Score 82/100

Highland Park Loyalty of the Wolf 14 yo

After the quite excellent 18-year-old (Viking Pride – TR edition, reviewed on the blog just last week) we come to review the younger sibling, which is called ‘Loyalty of the Wold’, in line with the rest of pseudo-viking naming scheme whiskies from HP (Some people are quite tired of it, and I have to agree, it’s a bit too much, they’ve played the...

Score 79/100