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Highland Park 18 Year
Single Malt — Islands, Scotland
Reviewed
October 5, 2017 (edited January 11, 2020)
Nose - Dark dried stone fruits, leather, dark chocolate, dark black tea, dark chocolate English toffee, butterscotch, hint of coffee.
Taste - Butterscotch and dark caramels, drying leather mouthfeel, black peppercorn spice, dark cocoa nib bittersweet, very light smoky medicinal sweet, light tobacco, hint of goji berry medicinal sweet.
Finish - Light lingering medicinal fruity/smoky sweet, lingering black peppercorn spice, hint of fruity medicinal goji sweet lingers.
Score - 90/100
Final Thoughts - The nose on this is absolutely phenomenal. I love the hints of dried dark stone fruits, chocolate, and toffee and I think I could nose this all day as it has almost no trace of any ethanol heat. Once it hits the tongue though I get more of the chocolate and toffee, but the dark stone fruits pretty much disappear although a tiny hint of smoke appears which is nice. The finish is fairly short and the dominating lingering feature is like a dark chocolate covered goji berry in that you get a light bitterness combined with a light medicinal sweet. Tasty and probably best sipped neat or with a tiny bit of water as I think ice or mixed in a cocktail would mask most of the subtle features that are present in this one.
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Ice or a cocktail! Perish the thought! Good call on the goji berries - not got that previously.