Highland Park 05-year-old WiWa Peat Week #3 - Halloween Edition
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | Whisky Watcher (WiWa) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | 2025 |
| Age | 5년 |
| Cask Type | Sherry Octave |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 45.6% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
pale gold
air Nose
huge old bottle effect, with lots of chamomile tea, passion fruit and something slightly metallic at first nosing (aluminium pan). Beautifully mineral (wet limestone, flints), peaty and smoky, developing on linseed oil and paraffin, not unlike an old Clynelish 12 yo white label. Also fresh pineapple, citrons, lime, getting then slightly meaty (ham). Truly beautiful and a profile that I got in no recent bottling whatsoever
restaurant Palate
ho-ho, but this is superb! Creamy, oily, almost thick like a liqueur despite the low strength, with a fantastic attack on candied lemon zest and mastic, olive oil, beeswax and smoked tea. Almost as peaty as, say an old Ardbeg from the 60’s. Goes on with notes of lemon balm, crystallized oranges, Campari, Schweppes… Marzipan, kumquats… So good!
timer Finish
not extremely long but beautifully waxy and citrusy, with the peat lingering in the background and maybe hints of soft curry and pepper. Stunning malt that probably improved in its bottle – and highly drinkable, at that. 94 points . Highland Park 18 3/5 yo ‘Lunar Bottling’ (45.1%, OB, 2006) Bottled to commemorate some sort of lunar cycle that happens only once every 18 3/5 years – which happened in September 2006. A bit bizarre
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