Highland Park 1989 23 Year Old Cask #10518 Adelphi

Highland Park 12 Year Old

Highland Park is near and dear to my Scotch loving heart. It was at my inaugural SMSW tasting that I first learned of the HP brand. This tasty malt immediately evoked intrigue as the peat introduced itself to my senses. I needed to learn more and thus my whisky journey began. For those who are new to Scotch and/or peated styles, this is a nice...

Score 88/100

Highland Park SMWS 4.195

Highland Park does some questionable stuff and some pretty awesome stuff at the same time. The older HPs (18, 21, 25, 30) are all pretty awesome in my opinion. All this other business with vikings and the NAS stuff is by and large quite questionable in my opinion. With the exception of Thor, mind you. That's a peach. So I don't really know what to...

Score 88/100

Highland Park Hjarta 12 Year Old

The word Hjärta is Norwegian for heart. As you are probably aware, the Orcadians have more in common with the Norwegians than with the Scots. They are more Vikings than men of the kilt. This bottling was launched in 2009 to celebrate the reopening of the visitor center. The bottles were for sale only at the distillery and in certain Scandinavian...

Score 90/100

Highland Park 30 Year Old

I've tried quite a few HP distillery offerings over the past couple of years and have been looking forward with great anticipation to the 30 year bottled at 48.1%. This retails in London for about £230 with the 5cl available at £19. As one would expect this has a beautifully deep toffee honey colour and sits in the glass elegantly. I tried two...

Score 85/100