Highland Park reviews

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…

High Parkland? Hahahaha, that is probably the silliest reference I have ever seen to Highland Park. Dramfool – what’s in the name? – leaves nothing to the imagination on the label by depicting a Viking…

Highland Park releases single casks with frightening regularity for an airport, city, club or even private person. Today I will try a refill butt from 2004, bottled for the famous Vinothek Massen from…

XOP is short for Xtra Old Particular, a series of single cask bottlings by Douglas Laing, containing respectably aged single cask whisky in their natural form and at cask strength. Today I will try a…

Old review: get yourselves back to Nov 23, 2015, early evening. Where were you? (Rhetorical question.) I was by a fireplace at a cozy boutique hotel in Madrid that goes by the name Only You (strongly…

For the second release in MMM’s Artist Series Manny and I returned to Orkney. You may remember our Orkney 2002 that we released two years ago in our Antarctica Series. Well, we found a cask that, in our…

A Highland Park of 30 years old? That’s not something you come across every day. It was distilled in the year in which yours truly reached the age where it become legal to drink alcohol (not that this…

I hope this Corona virus crisis blows over quickly, for in November I would very much like to return to the best whisky festival in Belgium: Spirits in the Sky. Last year, Mario and his team released a…

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 you…

Boy, this truly is a golden oldie, bottled in those old fashioned dumpy bottles that Signatory used in the last Century. Distilled in 1988 (the year in which yours truly got his driving permit) and…