This is an interesting dram, intense well melded flavours smoothly delivered. The nose is subtle, malt and demerara sugar provide one theme but there are also fruity hints of orange and raspberries to…

Not a typical Highland Park aroma, bittersweet including malt, sherry, liquorish and treacle. The bittersweet warning signs on the nose are evident in the flavours too, a cloying sweetness combines with…

Nicely presented and quite stylish packaging if not exactly eye-catching. The dram is a pleasant golden colour in a glen cairn glass.Lots of vanilla (maybe a bit too much) on the nose, accompanied by…

All this distilleries offerings seem to come in squat bottles with very narrow necks which pore very poorly. I hate bad design so this irks me every time, before I even come to taste the whisky.This malt…

Described as heavily peated on the bottle, that means something from Islay, but from elsewhere I’m less sure. I’m not detecting much peat in the aroma, the usual pine smoke I associate with Longrow is…

The label says it’s been profoundly peated whatever that means. Sounds like marketing claptrap to me, but lets see what it’s really like.There is something really different and dare I say it profound…

They’ve not changed the presentation of this whisky in my memory. A regal dark green box, dusky green bottle, understated but assured, as consistent as the contents. Massively smoky on the nose with some…

A marriage of fine scotch whisky by appointment to the Queen. A royal recommendation can’t be bad can it? The label also says Macallan and Highland Park have been used in the blend for “the smoothest…

The label says this malt has been matured in American and European oak casks, no other information is forth coming. As an offering from such a fine distillery the age, price and ABV seem appealing and…

Double cask matured in sherry and traditional oak casks, whatever those are, presumable second fill or bourbon casks. Whatever they were, they have made a light malt with a slightly rosy hue.A very…