Highland Park reviews

ose: Zesty with lemon drops, sweet wood , peat smoke , earthy peat camphor. Wax and dust.Palate: Malty, smoke and peat and dirty earth with some zest. Not very complex.Finish: medium. Bitter earth with…

Well, another regular pleaser that I haven't had in years. Let's see how it holds upNose: Honey, grass, and an interesting smoke-burning tire, but without being acrid. Salt and sea-water behind dried…

I bought this 1 liter bottle of HP12 at the local supermarket. I have had the bottle for about 6 months and have completed 60%. Upon tasting this afternoon I found it more enjoyable than previous expe…

The Exclusive Range from David Stirk’s Creative Whisky Company bottles relatively young, affordable, easy drinking whiskies. This one, with its 13 years, falls into that category. The nose is fresh and…

This Highland Park is a bottling of whisky on Spanish sherry casks and hence often considered to be the opposite of the Leif Eriksson, which matured wholly on bourbon casks. Drakkar is Nors for dragon…

We will end our little HP line-up with an amazing cask. Well, that is what the label says. This is the second Amazing Cask from Malts of Scotland (the first one was the Bowmore 1995, remember?). This…

I am putting two Highland Park from 1998 head-to-head. Both were bottled for the Belgian market. On the one hand there is the Smoking Buffalo 2nd Edition, on the other there is this 14 Year Old for a…

Here is another HP from the Creative Whisky Company, this time bottled in their Exclusive Casks range, meaning it was finished on an extraordinary cask, in this case a Pedro Ximenez sherry cask, which…

Today, I am going back into time to put two independent bottlings of Highland Park head-to-head, both from 1998. Let me start with this Smoking Buffalo 2nd Edition, in honour of AA Gent, a local football…

By this point, the secret is out. This 12 year from the worlds most northern distillery is an out-and-out steal at $45. Highland Park slowly malts their barley (a lot of which is actually THEIR barley…