Highland Park 18 Years Old Tasting notes and reviews
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Highland Park 18 Years Old
- Brand
- Highland Park
- Expression
- 18 Years Old
- Type
- Scotch Whisky ~ Single Malt
- Age
- 18 years old
- Abv
- 43.00%
- Produced at
- Highland Park Distillery
- Region
- Island (non Islay)
- Availability
- Widey Available
- Website
- www.highlandpark.co.uk
Whisky Magazine Issue 5
Guide to Tobermory - Milroys of Soho - Whisky and Fish.
Published August 1999.
Michael Jackson
90- Nose
- Warm, notably flowery. Heather-honey, fresh oak, sap, peat, smoky fragrance. Very aromatic and appetising.
- Palate
- Remarkably smooth, firm, rounded. Lightly salty. Leafy (vine leaves?), pine nuts. Lots of flavour development: nuts, honey, cinnamon, dryish ginger.
- Finish
- Spicy, very dry, oaky, smoky, hot.
- Comment
- If I smoked I would have a cigar with this one.
Jim Murray
95- Nose
- An empty honey jar which once held peaty embers. An enormous nose which seems to improve with each bottle I sample, though the characteristic salted butter is always present. Fabulous.
- Palate
- Beautifully sweet: even sweeter than the 12 Years Old with peat on the back of the palate. Beautifully chewy, oily and substantial.
- Finish
- Still peaty and now a little oaky. Cocoa and toffee cream compexity.
- Comment
- This has to be my favourite Highland Park of them all, and each new bottle I taste (this was my sixth sample) seems to underline the overall class and consistency of this distillery. Brilliant.
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