Highland Park 1968 40 Year Old Cask #3464 Duncan Taylor Peerless

Highland Park 12 Year Old

First vapor: Buttery cinnamon over deep orange. Nose: Overall light. A slow breath: old sneakers, dark honey, salty nectarine. A faster inhale reveals levity: vanilla and macadamia, maybe a just-used pencil eraser. Palate: Sour cream entrance...then becomes syrupy-sweet, and like an organic mouthful of earth and flower petals. This may seem...

Score 78/100

Highland Park Signatory 1991

This 20-year-old Highland Park IB is my second experience with a Signatory bottling that tastes milder than its OB rough equivalent, despite a higher ABV. It also has a flavor profile that’s somewhat unexpected. Whereas my Caol Ila Signatory ’99 tastes like a lighter version of the standard C.I. 12 yo, this HP tastes more like…well, a Caol Ila. On...

Score 89/100

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 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