Highland Park 1968 HB A Rare Vintage Bottling
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | Hart Brothers (HB) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1968 |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | 26년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 43.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
pale amber
air Nose
where straight on coffee, mint and meat here, the style being closer to a traditional highlander. The sherry starts to shine through after a moment, the whole getting nicely vinous (clean wine barrel – when you put your nose over the bung). Also espresso coffee, barbecue, bread crust, hints of cardamom… Great nose
restaurant Palate
nicely hot and very coffeeish, probably wilder than on the nose. Lots of salted liquorice, rum, hints of bubble gum, strawberry sweets, maybe even Jell-O… Really playful. Goes on with ripe pineapple, hints of lemon balm, lemon sweets… Excellent at just 10yo, this old Balblair! Or maybe it was older, actually (it does taste older than 10yo I must say). A good old classy G&M. 90 points . MUSIC – Recommended listening (excellent experimental electronica): Dorine Muraille aka Julien Locquet plays Bbraallen.mp3 (it's on his almum 'Mani'). Atmospheric, in a certain way. Please buy his music if you can find it. May 2, 2007 MALT MANIACS NEWSFLASH by Johannes van den Heuvel Hip, hip, hurray... Malt Maniacs #103 is now on-line, together with the first few issues of our 'revisionist' archive, covering the years 1997, 1998 and 1999. We kick things off with two brand new glassware tests by Lawrence and Craig. For a long time the Big Glassware Test from Klaus Everding was the only proper article on the topic in Malt Maniacs. That article was published quite a few years ago and only covered a relatively limited number of glasses. Lawrence and Craig cover 18 and 16 different glasses, respectively. Furthermore, MM#103 is enriched further by an episode of 'Olivier's Travels', a book review by Davin, an article by Konstantin about the prohibition in the USA and an interview with Andy Watts from the James Sedgewick Distillery in South Africa. Malt Maniacs #103 is a nice and 'thick' issue too; just one webpage, but on an average computer you'll have to push 'Page Down' more than 30 times to get to the end. Around 30 pages may not seem like a lot compared to your average 'paper' magazine of 60 - 80 pages, but then again about half of those pages are advertising - and then you'd often STILL have to pay for the pleasure of reading it... Malt Maniacs is still free as a bird! TASTING – TWO INDIE 1968 HIGHLAND PARKS Highland Park 26yo 1968 (43%, Hart Bros) Interesting early label for Hart Bro
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