Highland Park 1990 16 Year Old Single Malts of Scotland

Highland Park Orkney 9 Year Old Jack’s Pirate Whisky

Only 87 bottles of this not-so-secret Highland Park were bottled for the Whisky Fair Nurnberg in 2019 and the other 290 bottles (with a slightly different label) were available to the market. This youngling was bottled at cask strength. It is very pale. The nose holds the middle ground between a waffle with icing sugar and lime juice from a...

Score 80/100

Highland Park 12 Year Old

The reviewed bottle of HP 12 has been open for about 8 months. This review is meant to give a perspective on the whisky over 8 months time. Nose: at bottle first opened, slight to moderate nose with a little grassy barley grain and a little peat. At 8 months, there is very rich honey, strong high-pitched wine, malted barley mostly in the...

Score 86/100

Highland Park 12 Year Old

Color: light amber. Nose: smoke and toffee. Body: medium-full and buttery. Palate: more smoke and toffee. Very woody but sweet too. Nutty. And I'm probably out of my mind, but I feel like I taste strawberries? Finish: long and smokey with a burst of pepper. HP12 was the third Scotch I ever bought after Glenlivet 12 and Glenfiddich 12, and while it...

Score 85/100

Highland Park Thor 16 Year Old Valhalla Collection

Highland Park started a new limited quartet (similar to their Saint Magnus trilogy) called Valhalla Collection. In the best story-telling tradition, all four will be named after Norse legends and gods and the first one is Highland Park Thor. Loki, Freia and Odin will follow later. The whisky is 16 years old, cask strength ('Thor' strength) and...

Score 90/100