Highland Park 1977 33 Year Old Perfect Dram

Highland Park Berry Bros & Rudd Orkney 15 2002 - 2018

Review 6/6 of the samples @Wierdo very kindly sent. This is more than likely Highland Park and it will be my first taste of an IB from that distillery. This is at cask strength and I think is from a single ex-bourbon cask - I may be wrong about that though. Review is neat - more on that later. Nose - Distinctly HP on first nosing (I’ve never...

Score 86/100

Highland Park Dark Origins

HP have a history of making quality drams so I was pleased to purchase and open this bottle. It is made from spirit matured in different cask types. 80% first-fill Sherry casks (20% refill) - 60% are first-fill European oak, with 20% being first-fill American oak Amber in the glass, bottled at 46.8% and bottled in a black bottle. The nose is...

Score 86/100

Highland Park Dark Origins

In my experience I have found HP to have an awful lot of batch variance in their releases, particularly their standard 12YO. Sometimes it's a rich smokey experience, other times I've found it rather bland. The 18YO is generally excellent, (although I've had some samples of that which were not as great as they should have been) and have also been...

Score 88/100

Highland Park 18 Year Old

After the one from the old dumpy bottle from an era long gone, on to this modern 18 Year Old from 2007. The nose is rather closed, but opens up if you are patient. Grassy and clean, with apples and walnuts mostly. Soft toffee and sweetened butter. Only a tiny bit of smoke. Some mint for a fresh touch. Almost no spices to speak of. Give it fifteen...

Score 86/100