Highland Park 1970 Orcadian Vintage Series
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1970 |
| Bottled Year | 2010 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 48.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
unusual! Very different from the 1974, starting with rather big whiffs of fresh mushrooms, fern, moss and balsa wood as well as a little mustard. Does all that come from the new Spanish oak? The whole is much less rounded and honeyed than usual old HPs, and certainly not vanilled. Also whiffs of sea air and a little graphite. It’s only after you got used to those aromas that you start to detect a honeyed fruitiness, with some dates, dried pineapple and honeydew, a combination that gives it a wee old rum-alike profile. Also rosewood, sandalwood. With water: gets a little simpler but more ‘focused’ on the usual HP notes, heather honey, figs, nectar, beeswax, oranges, sea air and just hints of peat. Really beautiful now – sometimes simplicity is great!
restaurant Palate
this is funny, it now resembles the nose of the 1974 as it starts with some rather grassy and balsamic notes such as pine resin (cough medicine), bee propolis, coriander, balm, even a little capsicum, juniper berries… Behind all that we have the same zestiness as in the 1974, with some lemon marmalade and a little passion fruit. With water: once again, water works greatly even if it does bring out more ‘new-oakish’ notes of sweet vanilla and ginger. Beautiful notes of verbena liqueur, lemon balm and mint
timer Finish
long, spicy, with more oak again and a return of the balsamic and even terpenic notes. Mint in the aftertaste
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