Highland Park 12 Year Old (old bottle shape)

Highland Park Loki 15 Year Old Valhalla Collection

I find this fifteen year-old whisky has two distinct profiles: one directly from the bottle (savory) and the other after sitting for about 10-15 minutes in the glass (much sweeter). Which do I prefer? Well, you might be surprised to hear the former. Either way, the relatively high ABV is quite smooth and easy to drink without water. In fact, I do...

Score 87/100

Highland Park Drakkar

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 head, referring to the prow of the famous Viking ship. It was, according to Gerry Tosh, not colored. It was launched in December 2011 for the duty...

Score 81/100

Highland Park 12 Year Old

Another saturday, another review. The colour of this whisky is remarkable: it is a beautiful full golden (perhaps even amber?), while no caramel has been used to produce this. Rather, this is the result of using first-filled sherry casks for a part of the production. The whisky shows slow, fat, rich tears. The nose then. Whoa- there is a lot going...

Score 90/100

Highland Park 12 Year Old

so thanks to the tax man i was able to purchase some whiskys to try/enjoy, these were Talisker 10yo, lagavulin 16yo, glenkinchie 12yo, cragganmore 12yr, dalwhinnie 15yo and highland park 12yo So far i have tried the Talisker, Dalwhinnie 15yo, glenkinchie 12, cragganmore 12 and Lagavulin 16yo and have enjoyed them all with the talisker and...

Score 92/100