Highland Park 1986 MoS

Overall rating
89.27/100
votes
109
Whiskybase ID
WB37347
Category
Single Malt
Distillery
Bottler
Malts of Scotland (MoS)
Bottling serie
Amazing Cask
Vintage
06.1986
Bottled
09.2012
Calculated age
26 years old
Casktype
Bourbon Hogshead
Casknumber
MoS 12052
Number of bottles
245
Strength
54.1 % Vol.
Size
700 ml
Added on
08 nov 2012 12:09 pm
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Highland Park 1986 MoS
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Whisky reviews for Highland Park 1986 MoS

12 users have left 13 reviews for this whisky. Average rating is 89.27 points.

  1. BunnaMan scored this whisky 89 points Expert Junior

    Blind tasting.
    Nose
    Estery pears and green apples, a hint of peach. Vanilla and grassy citrus.
    A hint of smoke.

    Taste
    Sweet smoke, estery fruity sweetness from the fermentation and destillation.
    Some saltiness.

    Finish
    Honey sweet, turnes a bit almond bitter.

  2. DimiIkon scored this whisky 89 points Expert Senior

    Tasting: February 2022
    • Nose
      Beautifully mature pears, perfume, pear candy, peach, light smokiness. Inviting!
    • Taste
      Sweetness of fruit, again pear, floral, salty, and with a slightly smoky tone.
    • Finish
      Medium, with honey sweetness and bitter almonds.

  3. dram-drinker scored this whisky 88 points Photo Moderator

    Not bad, pretty drinkable but I would not necessarily recognize this as HP
    • Nose
      88 88
      Green fruits, vanilla, little leafy notes, minerals, little iodine, meaty - not bad
    • Taste
      89 89
      Very oily, creamy, subtle sweetness, fruity, more vanilla, more of yellow fruits now, quinces, peaches - pretty good
    • Finish
      87 87
      Medium long, warm, little zesty

  4. Malinois scored this whisky 88 points Expert Senior

    • Nose
      Honey, heather, fresh notes
    • Taste
      Honey, heather, soapy, woody
    • Finish
      Bit sweet, trace of smoke, woody and a bit spices with a fresh finish

  5. P.A.O.K.you_are scored this whisky 90 points Connoisseur

    • Nose
      90 90
    • Taste
      89 89
    • Finish
      89 89

  6. lincolnimp scored this whisky 81 points Connoisseur

    • Nose
      85 85
    • Taste
      80 80
    • Finish
      81 81

  7. GlenSikkes scored this whisky 92 points Connoisseur

    Tasting Notes by Johan ('Uncut'); Highland Park 1986/2012, 54.1%, Malts of Scotland 'Amazing Casks', Bourbon Hogshead # MoS12053, 245 bottles
    Very fresh, aromatic nose. A lot of 'outside air'. A walk through the heather, and even more through the meadow, with its tall grass and flowers. Buttercups, dandelions. Morning dew. Clay. Chalk. Wet stones (we now walk along a mountain stream). Aspirin. Honey? Mja, but rather vanilla. And fruit do you say? You can count on yes. Red, juicy apples (Jazz), peaches, lots of gooseberries and a bit of lychee juice. Smoke? That is also there, but far in the background. Beeswax, that certainly does. Hay too. And pine needles, along with a little bit of resin. Really a lot of 'outside' associations. Clean, and especially complex profile. Fresh, sweet, floral and fruity notes are beautifully interwoven. But give him time, he grows, evolves beautifully. Actually much more Clynelish than Highland Park. The taste does not go down in terms of cleanliness and complexity. First the floral character (hay, grass, flowers), followed by the sweet (honey, vanilla, nougat), than by the minerals, the fruit (peaches, pears, pineapple and grapefruit) and the beeswax. Underlying herbs (cinnamon, liquorice and pepper) but almost no oak. A bit of salt. Stinging mouthfeel. Long, tingling aftertaste, sweet, salty and spicy. The nose is pure Clynelish, the taste is slightly more Highland Park. Very complex, and indeed also special whisky .   91/100
    http://onversneden.com/2012/11/19/highland-park-1986-mos-amazing-casks/

  8. lincolnimp scored this whisky 81 points Connoisseur

    WITH WATER

    The change is dramtic and thankfully much better, the soapiness goes and it is more floral. I have had this over the last few nights and neat it is not very good and I could not get past the soapy notes.
    I cannot remeber the last time I had a cask strength whisky that changed so much with water and for the better, it was like a different whisky.
    This series is called Amazing Casks but this is far from amazing in truth and without the change with water it would have been scored around 75 points by me but, as it was so much improved with water it certainly gets over 80 but, it is nothing when compared to the older 25 year olds 48.1%, 50.7% OB etc
    • Nose
      Shoe polish, wood varnish, slight grapefruit, does not smell like Highland Park certainly not the older bottlings.
    • Taste
      Bitter wood and soapiness, biscuity, cardboardy and slight blackcurrent.
    • Finish
       quite long but the soapiness remains.

  9. MaltMartin scored this whisky 89 points Connoisseur

    Complex and interesting HP with a rough spicy edge. May be a tad too bitter to my taste. Opened on new years eve 2013 with my buddy Emiel.
    • Nose
      Lots of bourbon cask characteristics of vanilla and honey. Followed by wet stones and chalky notes. Cut grass as well. Some gooseberries. Freesias. Smoke at the background.
    • Taste
      Now more on punchy citrus fruit. Lemon and lime in a rough sense. Grapefruit bitterness and pine. It's all quite waxy with deep (cedar) woody notes and peaty influences.
    • Finish
      Medium long. Hot spices of black pepper. Ginger. Liquorice. Spearmint at the end.

  10. whioli scored this whisky 91 points Connoisseur

    • Nose
      88 88
    • Taste
      92 92
    • Finish
      92 92

  11. Erik Elixir scored this whisky 87 points Connoisseur

    compared with Highland Park 1986 vW, tasted with Aby
    • Nose
      floral, woody, oily, nuts and some heath peat
    • Taste
      peat, some smoke, mandarins, wax and spices - brown sugar
    • Finish
      sugared candy and wax

  12. Kiezentriebwein scored this whisky 90 points Expert Senior

    • Nose
      89 89
    • Taste
      91 91
    • Finish
      90 90

  13. markjedi1 scored this whisky 91 points Connoisseur

    This is the kind of whisky that makes me very, very happy. I hope, with
    the holidays coming up, that my family and friends read this carefully and get
    the hint. I would not mind finding this under the Christmas tree.
    • Nose
      On the nose I get wonderful sweet fruit notes, almost tropical. Sherry
      cask, maybe? Turkish delight, apricots, mango, pomegranate. A touch of smoke
      that remains discreet. Slightly mineral, too, like wet stones. Some earth and
      wet grasses and the picture is perfect. Wonderful!
    • Taste
      It is silky soft on the palate, though spicy. And again wonderfully
      sweet. Honey, beeswax, all kinds of fruit, both yellow and white. Some
      eucalyptus as well. Perfectly quaffable without water.
    • Finish
      The finish is long, warm and sweet with a smoky finale.

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