Highland Park 2017 WDS
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Highland Park |
| Bottler | Whiskydudes (WDS) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 2017 |
| Bottled Year | 2024 |
| Age | 5년 |
| Cask Type | refill hhd / 3 year 1st Oloroso quarter |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 55.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Islands |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
amber
air Nose
we’re geared towards cakes, and milk chocolate, and praline at first nosing, but some camphory, almost tea-ish notes are soon to emerge from the oak (I suppose). It is more ‘old’ style HP after the very clean secret ones we had yesterday, but I see no sulphur, or rubber, or vanilla, or any embarrassing aromas that tend to pester many a modern whisky these days. Nutshell, it’s rich and it’s balanced at the same time. With water: oak, teak, beech, pinewood, black tea…
restaurant Palate
rich, extractive, almost a little heavy, and very singular, with more ginger than usual. Typical quarter cask (or even smaller vessels), this is almost akin to some of the many new craft spirits that are making massive, and sometimes very smart use of small active casks. Oh I’ll say it, it’s as if, say Smögen had bought some HP fillings and taken care of then ‘as they usually do with their own stuff’. Would be cool, no? I’d love it if, say Westland would buy some Lagavulin new make, for example. See the idea? With water: craft!
timer Finish
long, jammier. Always this ginger in the aftertaste, that’s the oak dancing on your palate. A little coconut