![]() ![]() The palate is fruits like pineapple and pear, with a little mid tongue burn. The touch of peat lifts and enhances what could be a Glenmorangie clone if it was absent. Sherry cask influences are predominant, but a small amount of heathered honey and peat can be found. Just like I remember, this is clean and simple and easy. This is someone thinking it through, I appreciate that. This thing is huge! It make the nicest popping noise, and it has a 1/8th twist lock to make sure it doesn’t come off. I suppose this is why they use codes in the first place.īefore I tell you how it tastes, I think it pertinent to tell you that it has the coolest “ chungus” of a cork. Both “B” and “C” must be 2020 bottling dates. So that must mean that they used two letters in 2020. My problem with that is that the date code 21/10 should indicate the day and month, but it isn’t October yet. If you read my Macallan Triple Cask Matured 12 Years review it will explain that the “C” at the end of the first set of letters should be an indication that this was bottled in 2021. ![]() Highland Park 12 Viking Honour – Twist Cork It was a hard fought internal conflict that ultimately resulted in me deciding that I needed to do a Highland Park standalone review first and that I could do a comparison review some day down the road. I have a bottle from back then, I thought about opening it to check and see if it tasted the same as this one. The last time I had this there was no “Viking Honour” in the name, it was just called Highland Park 12. TransparentSmoke Review: This is my first time having a dram of Highland Park 12 Viking Honour since back before they changed the packaging in 2017. Warm wintery spices that are engulfed in waves of smoky honey, fruitcake and heather.įLAVOURS: Heather honey | Rich fruitcake | Winter spices | Seville oranges | Aromatic smoky peatįrom bottle back: Natural colour, heather honey sweetness, rich fruit cake, aromatic smoky peat. Tasting Notes From The Highland Park Website: Purchase Location: Olympia Liquor Skyview 13538 137 Ave NW Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Location: Holm Rd, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland With is naturally cask driven color, crafted with no additives, this fine whisky received the Tried & True Award, 96/100- Great Value, as a finalist at the Ultimate Spirits Challenge 2019 and a Gold Medal at The Fifty Best Single Malt Scotch Whisky Awards, 2018.Cask Type: Predominantly sherry seasoned European and some American oak casks Rich, malty tones meld with the subtle floral smoke of Orcadian peat, aged exclusively in sherry-seasoned European and American oak casks.ĭiscover an unmatched balance of smoky and sweet: discover the Highland Park 12 Year Old VIKING HONOUR. Together with Orkney's unique environment (the temperate, moist climate of the archipelago results in an even maturation process), the peat gives Highland Park Whisky its traditional malty flavors that are tempered by just a subtle touch of smoke.įor centuries, Highland Park has produced single malt Scotch whiskies that are uncompromising in their pursuit of a perfect balance - and the 12 Year Old is perhaps the best known expression of that perfection. ![]() The peat sourced from Hobbister Moor is "absolutely fundamental in understanding the flavor of Highland Park Whisky," says Russell Anderson, the distillery manager. Also, the peat sourced from Hobbister Moor has greater derivatives of carbohydrates and a lower concentration of lignin than peat from Islay, giving Highland Park's peat a unique chemical fingerprint. Hobbister Moor peat is sourced from floral heather bushes, which burn hotter and cleaner than the grassy peats of Islay. The malt will be on the floor for seven days, and I'm running five floors at the moment."Īfter malting the barley, Highland Park Distillery smokes it using peat sourced from Hobbister Moor, a peat bog located approximately seven miles from the distillery. I have to turn the malt every eight hours to prevent the roots getting tangled and to get it all aerated properly. "You find it can get a wee bit slippery underneath. "You have to be careful here on the malting floor," says Eric Tait, Highland Park's Maltman. Today, over two centuries after its founding, Highland Park Distillery remains one of the few Scottish distilleries that continues to hand-turn, malt, and peat its own barley. Highland Park is an incredible longstanding whisky house, and they pride themselves on their rich Norse heritage, an essence which is reflected in their craft. The name of the distillery is derived not from the region of Scotland known as The Highlands - the Orkney islands are not a part of The Highlands - but rather from the region known as High Park, where the distillery was founded. ![]() Situated in the Orkney archipelago in Northern Scotland, Highland Park Distillery was founded in 1798 by Magnus Eunson. ![]()
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