Highland Park 2000 SMWS 4.266 The dark lord of stromness
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | The Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2000 |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | 20년 |
| Cask Type | 1st Fill Ex-Bourbon Barrel |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 58.1% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
rather an active barrel I would, but excellent so, lots of gorse flower, coconut milk and natural sweetness that goes towards fresh pineapple, fruit salad juices and heather honey. Indeed, it's a lighter, sweeter and more playful HP on first impressions. In the background I find some coastal flowers, pollens, heather beer and touches of eucalyptus and tiger balm. Elegant and very good. With water: recalls Euthymol toothpaste, dried flowers, a slightly chalkier note now as well and touches of sandalwood and mineral oils
restaurant Palate
quite direct on arrival, split between sweet coconut, flambeed banana, soft wood spices, natural tar, new leather, mint, eucalyptus, soft medical embrocations and mead. Indeed, there's a nice sense of honey, pollens and wildflowers about it. A very soft vein of herbal peat smoke in the background. With water: caraway, lanolin, tea tree oil, salted almonds and a wonderfully herbal waxy and honeyed profile emerging. A slightly more pronounced peat note, more hessian, smoked olive oil, eucalyptus and dried herbs. Getting drier in a rather brilliant way now
timer Finish
long, herbal, slightly mentholated, gently coastal, notes of sandalwood and dried flowers
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