Highland Park 1986 SMWS 4.117 Fabulous Orkney summer
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1986 |
| Bottled Year | 2007 |
| Age | 20년 |
| Cask Type | Refilled Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 51.1% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
straw
air Nose
starts slightly sour (apples), with notes of porridge, and becomes unusually medicinal after that. Aspirin tablets, ginger tonic, bandages, then damp clay and quite some violet sweets plus touches of lavender and chlorine. I must say it’s got something of the early 1980s Bowmores, which is very, very bizarre. With water: it became extremely mineral and grassy, in a fairly nice way. Well, in a better way. Also faint whiffs of horse dung (back to Nature!)
restaurant Palate
so much better than on the nose! What’s striking is the huge peatiness for Highland Park, as well as the very rooty/earthy tones. Other than that, there’s a little lemon, oranges and, as usual, honey (of the slightly resinous kind, honeydew…) With water: all excellent now. Peat, cough syrup and soft spices plus more mineral notes
timer Finish
long, with more peppermint and a lingering peatiness. Peat always lingers, doesn’t it
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