The entry level bottling from Scotland's most northerly distillery, Highland Park, aged for 12 years. This is an older design, before the Highland Park range underwent a rebrand in 2017, and another in 2024. A fab find for a retro collection.
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have to admit after reading the reviews I was looking forward to this one but was a bit disappointed. not all bad bad just a bit too burnie for me
This is better than I expected for the price. It has a smooth and sweet, sort of butterscotchy body that at first struck me as being like a good blend, but after the first impression, a lot more detail emerged. It is particularly interesting to see how this whisky changes as it sits in your mouth: At first the sweetness from the sherry is most dominant, from which the smoke builds and sweetness fades into a sort of fruity spice, finally finishing with a lingering, dry smoke. Definitely satisfying, and not too expensive.
I was used to keep a bottle of cheapy crappy whisky in the cabinet to make the better bottles last a little longer. Now it's this HP12 doing this job nicely except the price.
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Why do you drink scotch whisky? If it is for the taste, then you cannot find a better TASTING on the planet . . . PERIOD. I have been searching for the ultimate, illusive, perfect scotch . . . from Islay, the Highlands, the lowlands . . thinking I needed to spend big to find it . .. not so. There just is no better tasting scotch out there. It has it all; peat, smoke, sweetness. I just can't find a better scotch, so I am going to stop looking. Highland Park 12.
