Highland Park 1988 CA Small Batch
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | Cadenhead's (CA) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1988 |
| Bottled Year | 2016 |
| Age | 25년 |
| Cask Type | Sherry Butt |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 55.7% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
coffee
air Nose
a big, phat, slightly flinty and smoky sherry at first nosing, with quite a lot of coffee to match the robe. It's almost as old-school as the packaging! Goes on with roasted chestnuts, pecan pie straight from the oven and maybe touches of bacon and big black raisins, say Corinthians. A timeless nose so far. With water: classic figs, raisins, dates and other dried fruits. Perfect
restaurant Palate
heavy, big, not pungent though, quite smoky again and rather perfectly leathery as well as slightly sappy/resinous. Also cloves and cumin plus black pepper, chestnut honey (big time! it's a very powerful honey if you don't know it) and then the very classic fruitcake and raisins notes. Big stuff indeed. With water: perfect again, there's even a nice grapey touch (and prunes) that makes you think of some good old armagnac. A lovely honey too as well as quite some caramelised peanuts - that part never stops growing
timer Finish
very long and it would remain clean and tidy. The coffee returns in the aftertaste, and so does the armagnac
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