Highland Park 1996 DL XOP
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | Douglas Laing (DL) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1996 |
| Bottled Year | 2018 |
| Age | 21년 |
| Cask Type | Refill Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 47.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
노즈에서는 하이랜드 파크 특유의 옅은 헤더 꿀과 마른 피트 연기, 오렌지 향이 명확하게 드러난다. 리필 호그스헤드의 절제된 오크가 21년 숙성의 균형을 단정하게 잡아준다. 입에서는 47도의 도수가 잘 익은 과실과 옅은 훈연, 향신료를 매끄럽게 밀어낸다. 오크니 몰트다운 달큰함과 연기의 균형이 또렷하다. 피니시는 마른 연기와 꿀이 길게 이어진다. 1996년 XOP다운 원숙한 아일랜드 몰트다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
rather wonderful, aromatic, orange-y, blossomy, and appropriately honeyed. Some hay, the faintest smoke, a wonderful slightly mentholated sherriness, a touch of fudge, and above everything, quite some tobacco. Entering a cigar shop where they’re pouring Assam tea. Also a lovely beeswax. Doesn’t quite feel like 47.5%, though, it’s a tad milder than that
restaurant Palate
perfect creamy honey and soft spices, you’d think this some much earlier HP (early 1960s). Baked apples, oranges, dried apples, then it’s black tea galore, earl grey, quite some cinnamon, a feeling of cedar wood, cloves, more cinnamon… There’s some old oak at play here but we’re extremely far from any dull plankiness. Pu-erh tea
timer Finish
rather long, a notch bitter in a good way, then more and more honeyed with a layer of strong black honey. The oak’s back in the aftertaste, also black raisins. Good news, some say black raisins purify your blood, is that true?