![]() The finish is the trump card, for that is truly good. It becomes syrupy sweet and creamy, which is a pleasant surprise. It starts on salted caramel and toffee apples with a lovely spiciness from the oak, before the woodsmoke and peat kick in. But all in all, this is a quite pleasant nose. Just a bit of Orkney peat offers some soft smoke and notes of heather. It offers a very sweet nose on caramel and toffee, joined by apples, cherries, citrus and some dark plums. From time to time a lovely HP is released at a normal price, like this Dragon Legend that costs less than 50 EUR. ‘Is it still about quality or is it all about quantity?’, I often hear. The official releases are too many too fast and much too expensive. Highland Park loves to profile itself with the slogan ‘best spirit in the world’, but many aficionados were somewhat disappointed with the distillery of late. I think the likes of Aldi, Lidl and certainly the independent bottlers have a huge part to play in engaging the new whisky crowd and introducing them to old & bygone-styled whisky with full maturation at an affordable price point. ![]() T: Again, the resinousness speaks but a wine-like juiciness combined with a dry smokiness piques my interest a little.Ĭ: Unlike many of the old guard, lots of young folk are engaging with HP, and enjoying HP’s often under-baked whisky with little knowledge or experience about what’s gone before. N: Those resinous casks are even more tiring than STR! For me, there’s way too much overly-keen bourbon cask influence. The marketing BS doesn’t touch/engage with me and frankly this peated young cask-led malt could be from almost any region. Then again I’m not in touch with HP anymore. REVEALED: Bit of a sneaky choice this, as this firmly peated expression is unlike the regular HP aged range. I’m guessing this is a 10yo at most, yet it also has NAS written all over it. I piece together a summary of my guess-work:Ī contemporary young malt, most closely resembling many Glen Scotia presentations like the Victoriana for example. Abv between 43-46?Score-wise, I’m currently wavering around the 82 mark. Bruichladdich does all manner of spirit from heavily peated to clean barley with Scottish barley in-between, but I’m unsure of age and distillery at the moment. This whisky isn’t dry enough for say, Talisker. If you like this, I’d imagine you’ll love Glen Scotia if you haven’t discovered it already. It’s a tad lively & precocious,…į: ,… with a firm-yet-unsustained smokey barley-led/malty finish.Ĭ: A competent contemporary malt if not my preferred style. The few things water brings is savoury-to-sweet barley/mineral/peat/cream, all swimming around as if in a swirling soup. Quite a short travel but adding a little water pays dividends. T: Ooh there is certainly peat, disguised greatly by the lactose notes on the nose. Everytime I come back to this, I’m hit by those resinous vanilla virgin oak casks. ![]() I find this slightly butyric in a Glen Scotia kind of way. N take 2: ,… but overall we’ve a young, rapidly-matured, simple-yet-firm malt. The profile includes a deep creaminess, peat hints and iron fillings., N: Stronger abv here than the rest, and a firmer spirit that’s unequivocally seen fresh bourbon-cask maturation. ![]()
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