Not Your Average Glass Of…Highland Park
Courtesy of the good people of Orkney (Highland Park) Distilleries we bring you Highland Park 40 Year Old. Aged in a variety of sherry pre-filled casks for a period of forty years, Highland has had this release planned from the first day this whisky had started aging. Forty years later and that first dram leads into a fantastical journey to perfect whiskey bliss.
Highland Park 40 starts off by slowly caressing your palate with flavors of elegant cocoa perfectly balanced with characters of candied oranges, and hazelnut. These magnificent flavors are just the first step, as touches of vanilla and cinnamon bark slowly make their move on you, ever so gentle drawing you deep into this trip to the pearly white gates. Just as this is occurring, light touches of smoke and maraschino cherries grab you and fill you with simple bliss.
Highland Park 40 completes the seduction of your palate with a triumphant finish containing specks of sea salt, cocoa and smoke almost as if a great candy maker helped craft the spirit.
If I could give a score higher than 10 in our current ratings system, this would be the spirit that surpassed this point.
Highland Park 40 Year old retails for around $2000 and has limited availability in the range of about 55 bottles in the United States.
February 24th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
[...] Highland Park recently announced the latest edition to its award-winning family of whiskies, an extremely limited bottling harkening back to the year 1968. Making it just slightly older than the 40 Year Old release that hit shelves in 2008 which we took at earlier this year here. [...]