Highland Park 1971 SMWS 4.4
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1971 |
| Bottled Year | 1985 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 56.0% |
| Volume | 750 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
white wine
air Nose
it would be hard to be further away from the 8yo without being made at a different distillery (what?). This is all wet rocks, plaster, lemon rind, sheep wool, wonderful mineral notes all jangling together, beach sand, driftwood, crushed seashells, coastal flowers... one of those whiskies that compels me to write the word 'evocative'. With time it gets even more focused on these lemony aromas, preserved lemon, lemon tea etc. With water: pure seawater, dried seaweed, tiny briny notes, more flinty minerals and crushed shells. An almost brittle sense about it. But overall, totally beautiful
restaurant Palate
amazing purity and at also a breadth of flavours at work, the peat comes through, with smoked sea salt, olive oil, seawater, old cough medicines, tiger balm, more of these oily sheep wool impressions, white miso, dried tarragon, lime. It's a brilliant example of what a masterful distillate Highland Park can be, the way it can juggle and express so many facets simultaneously and with subtlety. With water: thicker, saltier, peatier, just more rugged and grizzly. It's also much fatter and waxier, with more of these wonderful smoked olive oil impressions, more medicines and hints of eucalyptus and mint
timer Finish
wonderfully long, drying, salty, delicately smoky, bone-dry peat smoke coming through, along with more savoury and coastal beauty