Highland Park 1968 Distillery Only
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1968 |
| Bottled Year | 2003 |
| Age | 35년 |
| Cask Type | Oak |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 51.2% |
| Volume | 700 ml 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
오랜 세월이 응축된 짙은 황금빛이 잔 속에 그윽하게 고인다. 오크 캐스크에서 35년을 보낸 1968년산 하이랜드 파크는 헤더 꿀과 잔잔한 피트 연기, 말린 과일의 향을 우아하게 피워 올린다. 51.2도의 도수가 한 모금에 또렷이 실리며 토피와 오렌지, 은은한 훈연의 풍미가 매끄럽게 번진다. 오크니 섬다운 부드러운 피트와 꿀의 단맛이 깊은 숙성 속에서 빛나고, 여운은 향신료와 나무, 옅은 연기가 길고 섬세하게 이어진다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
straw
air Nose
starts bizarrely porridgy, milky and mashy, with certain grassiness and quite some apple compote but none of the very pleasant honeyed and flowery notes. Let’s see if water improves it: it brings out hints of celery and aniseed, fennel, apple skin, walnut skin, but the porridgy notes are still here. Hard to know why they bottled this one in these series…
restaurant Palate
bold and powerful but also immature, overly fruity (like a tutti-frutti spirit) and again quite mashy (strawberry-flavoured yoghurt). A little bubblegum as well. With water: it’s closer to the core range 12 yo now but without the faintest smokiness. The finish is rather long but very sweet, fruity, almost sugary… Well, I think this one’s just uninteresting but I wouldn’t go as far as some ‘colleagues’ who really hated it. 78 points . Highland Park 35 yo 1968/2003 (51.2%, OB, cask #2277, 546 bottles)