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18 Year Old Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Category: Island Single Malt Scotch

Date Tasted:
Country: Scotland
Alcohol: 43%
96 Points
Platinum Medal
Superlative
$175

Highland Park
18 Year Old Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky

Category: Island Single Malt Scotch

Date Tasted:
Country: Scotland
Alcohol: 43%
Light golden amber color. Aromas and flavors of grilled plum and spiced apricot, vanilla toffee and bread pudding, warm buttered biscuits with all spice over a wood fire, and cinnamon roasted chestnut and walnut with a round, lively, dry medium body and a tingling, interesting, medium-long finish evoking notes of sticky toffee pudding and figs baked over a peat fire, sweet heather honey, roasted nuts, all spice, vanilla, and and smoky leather. This tastes like home and what we will probably be sipping on until the day we die; red fruit, orchard fruit, baking spices, and rich, leathery, earthy smoke all incredibly well crafted and representing happiness in a bottle.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Rich & Full
Aroma Aroma: grilled plum and spiced apricot, vanilla toffee and bread pudding, warm buttered biscuits with all spice over a wood fire, and cinnamon roasted chestnut and walnut
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with notes of sticky toffee pudding and figs baked over a peat fire, sweet heather honey, roasted nuts, all spice, vanilla, and and smoky leather
Smoothness Smoothness: Tingling
Finish Finish: Long
Enjoy Enjoy: neat, on the rocks, with cigars and with drops of water
Bottom Line Bottom Line: This tastes like home and what we will probably be sipping on until the day we die; red fruit, orchard fruit, baking spices, and rich, leathery, earthy smoke all incredibly well crafted and representing happiness in a bottle.
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Island Single Malt Scotch

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Serve in a Glencairn Scotch Whisky Glass
About
Island Single Malt Scotch
Island Whisky refers to whisky made on the islands off the Scottish mainland, except for Islay. This includes the Orkney Isles; and the Western Islands (Arran, Jura, Mull, and Skye). These whiskies are characterized by various levels of smokiness and a distinctive, ethereal sea air quality.

Highland Park 18 Year Old Island Single Malt Scotch Whisky rating was calculated by to be 96 points out of 100 on 5/29/2024. Please note that MSRP may have changed since the date of our review.