Highland Park 1984 27 Year Old Directors' Cut Douglas Laing

Highland Park SMWS 4.195

Highland Park does some questionable stuff and some pretty awesome stuff at the same time. The older HPs (18, 21, 25, 30) are all pretty awesome in my opinion. All this other business with vikings and the NAS stuff is by and large quite questionable in my opinion. With the exception of Thor, mind you. That's a peach. So I don't really know what to...

Score 88/100

Highland Park 18 Year Old

This whisky, from the most northern distillery in Scotland, is told to be a perfect example of balance and complexity, and in distillery's portfolio it should represent a synthesis between youth (12 and 15 yo) and maturity (25, 30, 40 yo). N: there's kind of everything here. There's the (usual) pear and something a bit citrusy (green apples too)....

Score 88/100

Highland Park 18 Year Old

A single malt this good? Such an absolutely complex whisky. Starts of discerningly sweet and floral and then suddenly out of no where the fragrant smoky oak hits you at the back of the throat. Such a pleasant contrast. The start and finish are so different it's almost like tasting two malts - that are made for each other. Awesome!

Score 93/100

Highland Park 12 Year Old

Shockingly, it looks like this could be my first Highland Park review (but how can anyone remember all of these whiskies anyway??) Established in 1798, this is Scotland's northernmost distillery, way up in the Orkney Islands, in Kirkwall (the only other distillery in that godforsaken land is Scapa). It was on the site of where there once was an...

Score 90/100