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Colour: Medium golden, a light rosé wine glimmer.
Nose: Very soft and reserved in the beginning forest herbs (waldmeister, wood berries), green apples and marcipane, later also lavender soap with a very secret smoky note and soft citrus hints. In my book it is not as fat and voluptous as I might expect from a Highland Park, but in this discretion very appealing.
Taste: Very full, sweet and round, surprising for this discreet nose, full bodied malt combines beautifully with this still very clear floral and soft fruity notes. Demarara sugar, later there is nougat praliné, coated by white chocolate.
Finish: Long: The beautiful chocolate – nougat impression goes on and on revealing also exotic spices like cloves, ginger and cimmamon. If you ever wanted to know what “Perfectly balanced finish” means, this is the bottle for you.
Conc.: A great Highland Park which shows its very qualities in the second half.
Date: 3. July 2009
(it’s 16 pts for the rather weak nose (for a 17 yo– but great 20 for this exuberant finish)
2009