Highland Park 1973 Single Cask
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1973 |
| Bottled Year | 2005 |
| Age | 33년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 54.4% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
오크니 섬의 매서운 북풍과 히더 피트의 짭조름한 연기가 33년 내내 술에 새겨졌다. 잔에는 짙은 황금빛이 잠겨 있다. 코끝에는 헤더 꿀과 훈제 바다소금, 가벼운 정향의 향이 또렷이 드러난다. 입에서는 오크니 특유의 꿀과 훈연이 균형 있게 어우러지며 마른 과일과 흑설탕이 따라온다. 1973 하이랜드 파크 빈티지의 54.4도 강도가 긴 짠 연기 여운으로 이어진다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
dark amber
air Nose
exceptional right at first nosing, with a bold smokiness and superb coffee notes upfront. Not unlike a high-end ristretto in which you would have poured one cl of the best rum ever. Goes on with notes of Corinth raisins, Havana smoke, warm high-end sake, dried mushrooms and furniture polish and comes back more into line after that, with an endless cortege of dried fruits and chocolate. A fantabulous old Highland Park on the nose, where the big sherry does not overwhelm the spirit at all. Exceptional – lucky Americans!
restaurant Palate
Christ, this is truly exceptional! Big, starting on all kinds of raisins, switching to fresh mint, then lemon balm, then cough syrup (lots of camphor), then oak and its cortege of spices (cloves and pepper first), then old rum, then crystallised oranges, then other dried fruits (bananas, papayas), then bitter chocolate, cocoa, genuine coconut liqueur (NOT Malibu)... Then something superbly resinous... then... then... Phew, this whisky has no limits!
timer Finish
very long, like a raspberry liqueur-filled chocolate bonbon. Great (even if the nose was a notch greater – and certainly drier - than the palate)