Whisky Focus - Highland Park 1991 and 2001 Vintage Collection

Highland Park introduces two new travel retail exclusives to there Vintage Collection.

Highland Park will unveil at TFWA Asia Pacific in Singapore this month two additions to its travel-exclusive Vintage Collection of single malt whiskies, the Highland Park 1991 and 2001.

Highland Park Vintage 2001
Naturally rich, golden, clear and bright, the Highland Park Vintage 2001 offers delicate aromas of heather honey, dried grass with ginger spicy notes and a light touch of coconut. On the palate the vanilla and honey sweetness is balanced by the emergence of the aromatic heather peat smoke. Fragrant notes of cinnamon bark and dry spices can also be detected in this fine whisky which has a sweet finish with subtle traces of spice and smoke.

The 2001 Vintage (40% ABV), like the earlier 1998 Vintage, emphasises the smokier side of Highland Park by increasing the number of first fill American oak casks used to mature the whisky. The lighter, sweeter notes from the American oak, allow the smokier character from the distillery’s unique peat to be more pronounced.





Highland Park Vintage 1991
The Highland Park Vintage 1991 on the other hand uses a backbone of American oak casks to create a lighter style of Highland Park with a powerful smoky character that is balanced by a surprisingly rich and evocative sweet spiciness from the inclusion of first-fill European oak casks.

Golden with glowing coppery tones, Vintage 1991 (40% ABV) has aromas of dried orange peel, vanilla with toasted cedar wood and rich fragrant spicy notes such as nutmeg, a hint of cloves and incense. Mouth-watering lemon and orange citrus flavours in the mouth, with sweet vanilla custard notes wrapped in subtle yet complex spices at the end. The finish is medium sweet with a lingering, smoky spiciness.

The Highland Park Vintage Collection is based upon available stocks from the selected years and as such the editions are limited. As each vintage runs out they are naturally replaced by the next available vintage, selected at the same age as the previous vintage. The Vintage 2001 replaces the 1998 and the 1991 replaces the 1990.

The complete Highland Park Vintage series, which is available exclusively in selected travel retail locations, now consists of Vintage 2001, 1991, 1978 and 1973 with the Highland Park Drakkar and the Highland Park Leif Eriksson Limited Editions as evocative echoes of the brand’s Viking heritage.
 

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