Highland Park is one of my favorite distilleries, and it belongs to the Edrington group, just as Macallan; this important since it seems they have followed the same marketing and business plan: to release a lot of new expressions, most of them NAS, very well packaged and highly collectible. The real challenge here is actually making good whiskies, but in this case, they accomplished just that. Highland Park Voyage of the Raven tells the story of two ravens, called Huginn y Muninn, who were they eyes and ears of the viking god Odin. It is also about how vikings used ravens when navigating, to find new lands and return home, by just following them. Not only the story is beautiful, the bottle itself is quite nice. Bottled at 41.3%abv, a very dark, tawny color. ON THE NOSE: it is just marvelous. Figs / raisins/ blackberry marmalde WITH A earthy peat in the back, very perfumed. Some red fruit syrup, smells thick. After 2 minutes earthy peat changes into a glue aroma. Then it becomes winey, a chocolate bathed raisins note appear. Raisin note is very accurate; Very,very pleasant. Wow some clean lemon note just appeared out of nowhere after 5 mins.Bitter Coffee beans. This notes are coming one after another, not at the same time, so complex. The notes are very clean: Now it is dusty, like Peat became stronger. Hay. Lemon. After first sip, a sugary arrificial orange aroma note appeared, like cough syrup. Pecans, wow amazingly clean. First time i got this in a whisky. The orange Is getting more natural, than sugary. After a second sip, a melted milk chocolate aroma has been thrown here. It is amazing. Oranges. ON THE PALATE: Starts very dry and woody. Changes into a winey, spicy dram, lots of black pepper, not unpleasant although a little powerful. After 5 seconds in the palate it turns grassy / peaty. Second sip is clearer, it is a little watery, there is a punching peat flavor with pepper, but pleasant. Orange flavor is there but very dim. It is a pleasant dram on the palate but not nearly as complex as it was in the nose. Third sip gave me creamy vanilla notes. AFTERTASTE: is pretty nice. Plain new wood, very dry. Leaves a pleasant yet scorching spiciness on the lips. No fruitiness found after the first sip. Second sip gave me a little, but very pleasant puff of smoke, very dry, but VERY PLEASANT, i loved it. Nice, long lasting. I love the simple, peaty, burnt new wood aftertaste, it is rewarding even if it is not very complex. Overall, this is a wonderful, and not expensive dram. The peat and the sherriness worked very well here and specially on the nose. My score for it is a solid 93 over 100, for a $56 dram, its absolutely a must-have. Skal!