No brand seems to have more enthusiasm for no-age-statement, hard-to-pronounce whiskies than Highland Park. Pretty soon, the distillery will exhaust the canon of Norse mythology and have to move onto Hindu deities, where they will not run out of new names for young scotch anytime soon. Valkyrie is a good, peaty, young scotch, kind of in line with a young Benromach I recently tried. Apple, smoke, a distinct boozy edge, and buttered toast defined the nose for me. It tastes like a classic Highland Park, with a well-balanced mixture of sweet, spicy, and salty, with more sherry expressed in the palate and finish. A Highland peat, pine-like smoke complements these flavors at the end. For an $80 single malt, it’s too young for my tastes and isn’t as good as Highland Park 12 or 15.