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
셰리우드 옥타브의 작은 통에서 마무리한 시간이 하이랜드 파크 특유의 은은한 헤더 꿀과 가벼운 훈연을 한층 진하게 끌어올린다. 졸인 오렌지와 건포도의 단맛 뒤로 모닥불 같은 옅은 연기가 감돈다. 한 모금이 입을 묵직하게 채우며 다크 토피와 정향, 그을린 오크가 54.4도의 힘으로 번진다. 짙은 호박빛 너머로 훈연과 향신료의 여운이 따뜻하게 이어진다.
AITasting 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