Highland Park 2004 GM Connoisseurs Choice - Cask Strength
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | Gordon & MacPhail (GM) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2004 |
| Bottled Year | 2020 |
| Age | 13년 |
| Cask Type | First Fill Sherry Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 60.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold. Not dark sherry. BTW we’ve learnt while at the bodegas (where they season sherry casks for the whisky industry) that G&M are always asking for ‘bungs on the side’ and not ‘on the top’, like some have in their gigantic palletised warehouses
air Nose
I have the feeling that recent HPs are geared towards Springbank – not saying they’re doing that willingly – and this is a good example, with many a medicinal concoction, some clay, mud, crushed chalk, grasses, ointments… Now it’s certainly a little fruitier as well. Nice honeyed touches, and a moderate sherry. Fino type? With water: gets wonderfully mineral. Wet plaster, limestone after a rain, sourdough…
restaurant Palate
sharp and really unusual. Chewing on your cigar, eating burnt raisins, quaffing old style orange liqueurs, drinking mead… With water: the honeyed side gets bigger. Some kind of lemon and honey pie, with raisins on the top. Panettone, perhaps
timer Finish
long, with a little pepper, and always this chalky side
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