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NOTE: this was tasted from an old 18yo dumpy botle!Let me taste some Highland Park whisky with a small H2H with two 18 Year Old. First this one from a dumpy bottle from an era long gone, next to a modern…

After the one from the old dumpy bottle from an era long gone, on to this modern 18 Year Old from 2007.The nose is rather closed, but opens up if you are patient. Grassy and clean, with apples and wal…

I am working feverishly on my summer vacation plans, so what better to sip than a vacation dram? That is why I am putting three Highland Park vintages for Travel Retail (although they can be obtained…

This Highland Park was bottled for the traveller in 2010 and thus contains a 16 Year Old Highland Park, although the blue label only mentioned Vintage 1994. It was bottled at the rather easy drinking…

The last Vintage from Highland Park that I will be trying is the 1990, bottled (just like his younger brothers) in 1990, exclusively for duty free shops. So this is a 20 Year Old. The nose is soft and…

Nose: gentle and quite light. Fresh Green apples, wet hay. Damp oak. Butter. Fresh ginger. Cereal and grape peel and hints of vanilla.Palate: light and lovely with cereals biscuit-y. Vanilla on top of…

Nose: lovely sherry influence with hints of tobacco , brine and sea salt. A bit of sulphur. Very nice. Sweet thick and briny.Palate: Big milk chocolate notes, with wee smoke and a lot of brine, Crunchies…

from purchased sampleNose: Malty and rather elegant sherry. Fudge, pralines, toffee, butter, bananas, tropical fruit, and fleeting red berries. Smells fat and of rich sherry caramel. Lemony and buttery…

from a purchased sampleNose: Cinnamon, Christmas cake spice, cherries, toffee, raw nuts. There is a real waxy and almost smoky quality. Raisins, prunes in rum. Some vanilla and ginger. I added a drop of…

Nose: Malty and lightly vanilla. Sweet grass, and a drop of sunflower oil. There's some fruti in there, but it's faint at first, and more tropical than red/purple. It bears the characteristics of a light…