Highland Park Dark Origins 70cl Whisky
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Highland Park Dark Origins
Highland Park Dark Origins celebrates the early days of Magnus Eunson's illicit distilling on Orkney, back before the distillery was even founded in 1798. Magnus worked as a butcher and church official by day, but by night he was a legendary whisky smuggler and distiller outwitting the exciseman.
To honour their hero (the Batman of the Orkney Islands, if you will), Highland Park created a whisky with a suitably 'dark' character. Using 80% first-fill sherry casks (20% refill) - 60% are first-fill European oak, with 20% being first-fill American oak - an exciting, spicy, chocolatey whisky has been produced.
Please Note: These tubes are prone to slight rusting.
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Tasting Note by The Chaps at Master of Malt
Nose
Dusty baking spices and cocoa at first, cinnamon, vanilla, dates. Coffee cream Revels (possibly a couple of the orange ones too), a touch of blackcurrant/liquorice, plus butterscotch and an interplay between milk and dark chocolate.
Palate
Sweet, fragrant peat emerges with nutty melted milk chocolate and a little orange alongside some pastries.
Finish
Long and sweet, a little dry chocolate, just a hint of that heather smoke, then salivating.
Overall
Rounded first-fill Sherry notes come from both the European and American oak casks. This is a great, chocolatey addition of a (teenage) no age statement release.
