Highland Park 21 Year Old
Good, but out of character
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Review by @Dellnola
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- Brand: Highland Park
- Type: Scotch
- Region: Island
- ABV: 47.5%
Nose: Quite floral, peaches and syrup, green apple, orange juice, lightly toasted oak, iced tea, a little honey, a touch of amaretto. The sherry that is present is fragile and almost disappears with water.
Taste: Oak, honey, pepper, ginger snaps, rose water. Do I detect a bit of soap?
Finish: Orange zest and ginger, assertive oak. That faint soapy note returns. Very faint peat.
This 21 year old is very floral and lacks that pronounced Orkney peat, which to me is out of character for Highland Park. Additionally, that soapy note keeps me from falling in love with it. It seems that this one didn't strike me as much as it did other folks because I know that a lot of people love it.
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@Dellnola, I am interested to hear whether that soapy taste fades away over the next 3-12 months now that the bottle is opened. Soapy taste is the kiss of death ruin of a whisky for me. No whisky with much soapy taste could ever rate better than a 75 for me. But sometimes the soapy taste goes completely away after the bottle is opened for awhile.