Highland Park 1981 23 Year Old First Cask #6040

Highland Park The Dark 17 Year Old

Highland Park plans a new duo: The Dark & The Light. The first, which appeared at the end of 2017, symbolizes winter and autumn. The second one will then be about spring and summer and will be called The Light – coming soon. So, let’s give The Dark a go, which was cut to 52.9% (yup, this is not cask strength). The nose needs a bit of time, but...

Score 87/100

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

Highland Park 26 Year Old 1986 Amazing Casks MoS

We will end our little HP line-up with an amazing cask. Well, that is what the label says. This is the second Amazing Cask from Malts of Scotland (the first one was the Bowmore 1995, remember?). This Highland Park matured for 26 years and beads beautifully. On the nose I get wonderful sweet fruit notes, almost tropical. Sherry cask, maybe? Turkish...

Score 91/100

Highland Park 18 Year Old

A single malt this good? Such an absolutely complex whisky. Starts of discerningly sweet and floral and then suddenly out of no where the fragrant smoky oak hits you at the back of the throat. Such a pleasant contrast. The start and finish are so different it's almost like tasting two malts - that are made for each other. Awesome!

Score 93/100