Highland Park Stencilled Bottled 1970's Gordon & Macphail

Highland Park Earl Magnus Edition One 15 Year Old

Nose : Honey lemon meringue some marshmallow. Oak spices on the background.With water the oaky Notes are more evident. This is far more lemony than the 12,Hjarta and 18 i’ve tasted recently. (and more like the 15 year old, well it's 15 year old too, hm...) Less of the sherry notes are there, It's like a HP stripped out of it's sherry, i didn't...

Score 90/100

Highland Park 12 Year Old

From Highland Park 15-good, to highland Park 18-amazing, to Highland Park 12-equally amazing in it's own respect Nose: Whopped cinnamon cream with the edge of nutmeg. A sweet gentle smoke, not one of which the subject is burning. Maybe a moist smoke. Palate: A crisp spice shell (Typical; cinnamon, nutmeg, autumn) with vanilla cream leaking. A cool...

Score 90/100

Highland Park 8 Year Old b. 1970s

Even though this Highland Park is only 8 years old, in terms of distillation year it’s probably the oldest I have tried so far. It’s an official release from the 1970s with screwcap. It’s was the opening dram of an online tasting that was organized by Michiel Wigman, a famous Dutch connoisseur turned independent bottler. There is no peat on the...

Score 87/100

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