Highland Park 2008 DT The Octave
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | Duncan Taylor (DT) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2008 |
| Bottled Year | 2021 |
| Age | 10년 |
| Cask Type | ex sherrywood Octave |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 54.4% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold with bronze hues
air Nose
feels less peaty than the Stromness, but just as magnificent, although there’s more wood, more ‘maturation’, and certainly more honeyed/candied aromas, totally ala old HP. More oak impact, but the whole’s beautiful. Feels rather older on average than the Stromness, actually. It’s also a notch chartreuse-y, with also a little mead (very old HP as well), and after fifteen minutes it slowly starts to overtake the sharper and more austere Stromness, but that’s also the higher strength
restaurant Palate
a draw this time, both powers and feels are similar, with this wonderful fatness, even if this HP is still a wee tad bolder deep inside. More dried fruits for sure, more honeyed flavours, and less austerity. So perhaps a notch less ‘precise’, but still, what a stunning bottle!
timer Finish
very long, a tad acrid this time (the wood), very oily and fat. Perhaps a little artichoke in the aftertaste, which also often happens with old bottles
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