Highland Park 15 yo 40%

Discontinued and often neglected bottling. Still available on the web or small shops.

Highland Park 15 yo 40% - American oak sherry casks are used instead of European ones. This one is indeed a bit different from all other standard Highland Parks. 

Nose: touch of sulphur at first, but it dissolves quickly. Vanilla. Lime and coconut (thank you, Gerry!). Flowers and grass. Barley bisquit. Sweet apples and heather. A hint of Orkney peat after a while.

Taste: light and oily, citrus, floral and grassy with hints of honey and salt. 

Finish: medium-long, oaky spiciness and bitterness combined with gentle peat. 

Overall: at first sight it's very minimalistic malt. Orkney buddhists might have distilled smth of kind :) but there is more inside than it seems. At first, you should drink it with fairly large sips and hold for a while in your mouth. Chew it, play with it and you will discover its gentle complexity then. Fruits, flowers, grass, cereals, salt and peat are there, not shouting but whispering. Secondly, it gives you lots of pleasure, it's just dangerously drinkable. Beware of it :) Still much cheaper than Sigurd, but I like 15 yo much more. 

Score: 21.5 21.5 21.5 21.5, 86/100!