Highland Park 1968 DT Rare Auld
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | Duncan Taylor (DT) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1968 |
| Bottled Year | 2007 |
| Age | 37년 |
| Cask Type | Oak Cask |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 40.9% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
this one starts almost exactly like a big bowl of various cut fruits with crushed mint leaves. Very big mintiness indeed, as well as huge notes of eucalyptus, pine resin, fresh nougat and marzipan, whiffs of fresh putty… Rather extravagant for a while but quite bizarrely, all that extravagance quickly disappears, the whisky getting then much drier and almost as vegetal as the 21/1975 by Signatory, with just hints of cedar wood and rubbed orange peel. Still very nice whisky but the change of profile is quite amazing
restaurant Palate
more wood but a similar extravagance as at first nosing (bananas, both ripe and green, dried pineapples.) The good news is that it doesn’t fall apart at all after the attack, quite the contrary as it seems to pick up steam, even if towards a drier profile again. Lots of spices, cinnamon, nutmeg, white pepper…
timer Finish
long, oakier and more tannic now but there’s a very pleasant aftertaste on ripe pears (that’s very unusual in old whiskies.)