Whisky review : Highland Park 10 years old bottled @ 40%

Whisky review : Highland Park 10 years old bottled @ 40%

-Limited international release
-Bottled 2 years younger

Colour: Light gold, straw, light bodied, juicy.

Nose: very nice citrus / orange notes, sweet floral notes, very mouth watering indeed, candied fruits, touches of sherry spices. Very mild inviting nose.

Mouth: Soft, chili, lots of fruity sweet notes, quickly wants to turn to ether notes - and partially goes there. Stays on fruits, light orange jam, but again perhaps a bit short lived in the mouth. I tried it with water and I feel it does not benefit from it.

Finish: They wrote ''light smoke'' finish...From my point of view there is not smoke whatsoever here. You get a short re-flux of the candied fruits notes, marmalade, light floral perfume, barley sugar.


B+ for the taste. Great initial taste. The only shortcoming would be the ''dies-to-quickly''. Regardless, it's a great younger malt and I would choose it over the HP12 anytime. This one is more straightforward and fun to drink.
A- for price. I got it for 59,95$ (LCBO). It's not available at the SAQ, yet. Still, for 60$ it's a good purchase for any novice drinker or anyone looking to try a different style of HP.
B++ for the packaging. All too similar to me. Furthermore, as the their master distiller states ''colour comes only with the wood here''....then why not simply write it on the label ? It gets confusing....