Highland Park 2000 SV Cask Strength Collection

Category	SINGLE MALT
Distillery	Highland Park
Bottler	Signatory Vintage (SV)
Bottling Series	-
Vintage	2000
Bottled Year	2016
Age	15년
Cask Type	Bourbon Barrel
Cask Number	-
Bottles Released	-
ABV	57.1%
Volume	700 ml
Label	-
Country	Scotland
Region	Islands

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Flavor Profile

Vanilla

Sweet

Oaky

Honey

Fruity

Creamy

Dried Fruit

Spicy

Citrus

Smoky

Chocolate

Herbal

Floral

Nutty

Peaty

Maritime

Tasting Notes

Colour

gold

air Nose

a feeling of plenitude and freedom (excuse me?) This is, as expected, totally amazing. And it’s not even too strong when undiluted, as if it had been ‘reduced by time’. Mind you, almost 60 years in glass. In truth, we’re almost nosing Yquem 1967, with a fungal layer, and the most amazing kind of chocolate. There’s a little engine oil as well, but that would be ex-Jaguar D-type. A whisky for Le Mans Classic. With water: all things mentholy, as expected. I often quote chartreuse, but this does nose like old chartreuse. Wait, let me be smart… old white chartreuse? (apologies, never tasted that utter rarity that goes for insane amounts of money – just like Johnnie Walker White Label, I suppose)

restaurant Palate

a whisky to marry. Amazingly powerful (the 60% vol. do feel now), candied, chocolaty, and above everything, amazingly tropical. Like old Bowmore or Laphroaig can get tropical. We’re talking mangos and passion fruits. Good, while we’re adding a few drops of water, would you mind calling the anti-maltoporn brigade? With water: irrepressible. Had to use that word one day. Leather, tobacco, smoke, nuts, honeys, mangos… And a touch of cardboard, to be honest. Gets a little drying, perhaps, but I’m feeling like Donald Trump judging a painting by Botticelli now

timer Finish

long, and akin to some very old rhum agricole. Seriously. Mango jam, some smoked ham, perhaps even a wee slice of dried banana… What’s even more impressive is that there’s a rather massive smokiness in the aftertaste. A bit of oak and grapefruits too

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