Highland Park 12 Year Old 1997 Cask 6258 Bladnoch

Highland Park Drakkar

This Highland Park is a bottling of whisky on Spanish sherry casks and hence often considered to be the opposite of the Leif Eriksson, which matured wholly on bourbon casks. Drakkar is Nors for dragon head, referring to the prow of the famous Viking ship. It was, according to Gerry Tosh, not colored. It was launched in December 2011 for the duty...

Score 81/100

Highland Park Whisky Live 10 Year Old

Highland Park released this bottle to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the London festival WhiskyLive (which took place in February 2010). I was lucky enough to have a member of this community (thanks @Stu_R!) to send me three bottles. Only 600 were created at a cask strenght of 59,3% ABV. The cask was handpicked by famous whisky writers Rob...

Score 83/100

Highland Park 18 Year Old

If you read my previous review of the Macallan 18, you know that the Macallan ended up in my hand on accident... and what a beautiful accident it was! However, THIS is really what I came to order. Treating myself to the Macallan 18 and the Highland Park 18 in one night was a fantastic desicion. Nose: Peat, campfire smoke, swirling with fruit and...

Score 92/100

Highland Park Thor 16 Year Old Valhalla Collection

Highland Park is one of my top 3 distilleries, and there are always a few bottles in my bar from this wonderful Orkney distillery. Earlier this year, HP caused quite a stir in the whisky puddle after a massive PR campaign for their latest expression “Thor” the 16 year old whisky. A twitter account was created, as well as a teaser campaign was...

Score 86/100