Highland Park 15 Year Old Scotch Whisky

Name: Highland Park 15 Year Old Scotch Whisky
Brand: Highland Park
SKU: 1022033
Rating: 7.7 (2 reviews)

(0.75l, 43%)

7.7/10 (17 votes)

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About

Highland Park traces its ancestry to Old Norse víkingar. Highland Park crafts their Whisky with the same independent ferocity, passed down from the fierce Norse seafarers who settled on Orkney over 1,000 years ago.

Highland Park was founded in 1798, as a Scotch Whisky distillery in Kirkwall Orkney. Highland Park is a half mile further north than Scapa distillery, making it the northernmost distillery in Scotland. Highland Park is not to be confused with the Scottish Highlands, in this case 'Highland' refers to the fact that the distillery was founded in an area called 'High Park' to create a distinction from a ‘lower Park’ area close by.

The distillery uses local barley and peat from the nearby Hobbister Moor. The malt is peated to 20 parts per million phenol, and then mixed with unpeated malt produced on the Scottish mainland. Highland Park is made today, just as it was in 1798, using what they call their “five keystones of production”: aromatic peat, hand turned floor maltings, Sherry oak casks, cool maturation, and cask harmonization.

They also are one of the few distilleries left to meticulously turn their malt by hand. Their barrels undergo a painstaking process too. After being cut from European and American oak, and crafted into staves at precisely 45°, (apparently this method was used by the Vikings to make their longships watertight) the staves are shipped to Jerez, where they’re made into casks, filled with Oloroso Sherry and left to mature for about two years. These casks are sent back to Orkney to be refilled with Whisky. Giving about 80% of Highland Park Whisky’s distinct flavors, and natural colorings. This special single malt is matured for 15 years. Bottled at 43% ABV.

Smartass Corner: The actions of legendary víkingar Ragnar Lothbrok and his sons are recounted in the Orkney Islands poem called Háttalykill.

Category

Scotch
Style

Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Region

Islands
Country

United Kingdom, Scotland
Alcohol

43%
Distillery

Highland Park Distillery
Age

15 Year Old

Flavor Spiral™

About The Flavor Spiral

smoky

caramel

manuka honey

spicy

sweet

sweet sherry

floral

peaty

phenols

What does Highland Park 15 Year Old Scotch Whisky taste like?

The Flavor Spiral™ shows the most common flavors that you'll taste in Highland Park 15 Year Old Scotch Whisky and gives you a chance to have a taste of it before actually tasting it.

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Smartass
Corner

Whisky or Whiskey? The spelling differs geographically. In Scotland, Japan, and some other parts of the world, distilleries usually spell it Whisky; in Ireland and the USA, they spell it Whiskey.

Tasting Notes

Appearance / Color
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Nose / Aroma
Floral aromas, notes of toffee, peppery spice, and lightly smoky peat

Taste / Flavor / Palate
A round entry leads to a dryish full-bodied palate, with heather, iodine, toffee, and spice flavors

Finish
Long, with fading notes of peat and toffee