Highland Park 8 Year Old Bottled 1970's Gordon & Macphail

Highland Park 12 Year Old

I bought this bottle of Highland Park in September as my 'official' monthly bottle. It came highly recommended and had been on my wish list since starting my whisky journey at the end of 2010. It was #19 in whisky discovery(my blog explains it all). I’m coming to the end of this bottle and thought I should write it a glowing reference, although...

Score 90/100

Highland Park Harald

I'm generally a fan of Highland Park. It was one of the first whiskies I had ever tried. Luckily for me it was a bottle of the 18 year old and I remember thinking 'Bloody hell! There is no way whisky can taste THAT good!' The entry level 12 year old is decent enough, in my opinion, while on the other hand the premium 25 and 30 are in a league of...

Score 85/100

Highland Park 25 Year Old 5cl

Nose: compared to the 18yo it is sweeter, some nice mushroom earth like notes, sweet nougat and caramel, nice notes of leather, some good notes of stewed fruit, sweet thick honey and then some smooth peat Palate: Juicy and punchy, nice notes of honey and cooked vinilla, a slight peppery note and some grassiness, the peat is very smooth and long,...

Score 92/100

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