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Day 9: Highland Park

WHISKY DETAILS
Bottelaar WhiskyNerds
Gedistilleerd op 21.06.2004
Gebotteld 28.03.2022
Land Schotland
Streek Orkney
Leeftijd 17
Cask Type Butt
Vatnummer 13
Alcohol percentage 49.4
Inhoud 0,70


This whisky was rated 80.2 points on average by all participants

Tasting note by your BTC host and whisky specialist Nils van Rijn

Walking the line

Secret Orkney? Not so secret at all! There are only two distilleries on the island of Orkney, one is Scapa and one is Highland Park. With Scapa it is known that they haven't sold a cask for the last decades to independent bottlers, so that rules out Scapa. With premium bloggers, such as Whiskynotes.be stating openly that his is in fact Highland Park and the unmistakable Highland Park flavour profile, we can say for certain that this is in fact Highland Park. Luckily the WhiskyNerds also entrusted us with this detail, so even the last shrapnel of unrealistic possibilities vanished. The peatiness in this whisky could have hinted towards an a-typical Northern Islay or even a Highlander. But this, what we call “dirty” profile is typical Highland Park. With dirty we mean the notes of leather and heather, earthy peat smoke and tobacco. Also the minty eucalyptus in the finish was a very clear hint towards Highland Park.

We hope it did, and for those who picked Highland Park: Chapeau!
Good luck with the last 3 drams of this competition.

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