Highland Park 25-year-old

Name: Highland Park 25-year-old
Brand: Highland Park
SKU: 7753
Rating: 91.88 (145 reviews)

Overall rating: 91.88/100
votes: 145

Whiskybase ID: WB7753
Category: Single Malt
Distillery: Highland Park
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottling serie: Dumpy
Bottled: 1995
Stated Age: 25 years old
Strength: 53.5 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml
Bottle code: L444S
Added on: 01 May 2009 6:38 pm

Average value

€ 1583.49

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Whisky Reviews for Highland Park 25-year-old

23 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 91.88 points

Dram Dracula scored this whisky 90 points
04 Aug 2020 8:01 am
Nose

90 90

Butterscotch, caramel, a bit of cognac, soft heathery peat. Not super aromatic, likely due to high strength (this is the highest strength 25yo OB bottled by HP).

Taste

91 91

Powerful stuff. Kinda thin mouthfeel though... which is a bit disappointing. You can taste some of the sherry in here... raisins, dried cherries, along with again some cognac notes. Also some sweet bourbon flavors. Peat, of course. To be honest, if blind, I would think this was an older Yoichi, which btw, used to be one of my favorite distilleries.

Finish

90 90

Long, sweet, nice fragrant oak, again with the bourbon notes. This commands a high price on the open market due to its older bottling status along with the 53.5% ABV but I am not sure this is better than current iterations of 25yo HP's, which seems more balanced, fresh, and approachable.
HwiskyNut scored this whisky 94 points
07 Mar 2020 8:07 pm

3443’94
Thermidor scored this whisky 91 points
08 Dec 2018 1:02 pm
Another excellent HP 25yo. By nose and taste alone I'd give it 92, but the bitter finish takes it down a point. I do love the way it is balanced much more on the distillate than any wood it's been in, because it helps drive home how different older HP is from anything available in their current core range.
Thanks to member Waykid for the sample.
Tasted with HP 30yo 48.1% (92 pts.)

Nose

Dry wood with some herbal touches. Saltwater, some machine grease, and some beefiness. If you'd call the 25s and 30s bottled in the 2000s refined or luxurious, this one is more characterful, and more saturated with those distinctive notes of pre-70's distillates. Some wet clay comes up with water, and a certain fruitiness that is like nothing I've found in HPs distilled in the later times. All told, this is a much more coastal offering on the nose than anything of any age you could buy from HP right now.

Taste

A maritime whisky this, with a fair bit of biting peat. Kelp and sea salt, and some kind of industrial lubricant. There's some sherry notes here as well in the form of quality coffee and faint cloves, but they're discreet compared to current sherried HP releases. Is there some OBE or is it just the distillate? We may never know. What it certainly is is much wilder than the current crop of older HP core range bottles, which feel managed and fine tuned compared to this creature from the sea.

Finish

Neat the finish is a bit flat. It's salty, faintly tarry, and with a bit of that old style, chewy sherry oak. Its oiliness helps coat the tastebuds well but it's not particularly vivid. There is a bitter edge to it, which is amplified by water, presenting a dilemma: put water in it and get more of the distillate's fruit on the palate at the cost of a rounder but more bitter finish, or go neat and miss the tropical notes for a better balance but slight hollowness in the finish?
LiquidThoughts scored this whisky 92 points
23 Oct 2018 11:30 pm
Class HP 25, a little saltier and drier than the current, pure matter of taste in my opinion.

Nose

Nice full and crunchy, oldschool, roiboostee, fennel, hazelnut, chestnut, dark malt, dark honey, beautiful sherry notes, toffee, red apple with shell, some citrus notes in between, Heiderauch clearly noticeable, more than the current

Taste

Clear sherry dominance, dry, red apple, grapefruit, Earl Gray, roiboos as well, nutmeg, nice salt and pepper, roasted malt, heather, cherries, chocolate, leather, anise, camphor and tobacco

Finish

Tobacco, hazelnut, heather meadow, some salt, cherries, long
DrunkDude scored this whisky 88 points
30 Mar 2022 7:14 am
This is a bottle of the prestigious 95-year-old Highland Knight 25-year-old barrel, distilled around the 1970s, using a considerable proportion of sherry casks, and bottling in barrel-strength. scbp-4661, the smell is in line with expectations, but the taste is disappointing, and the bitterness is obviously too heavy. The wine has improved slightly after waking, but the wine is not as thick as it was when it was first poured.

Nose

93 93

The first aroma that comes out of the glass is a little fleshy and a little sulfurous, followed by the smell of old books, vague durian pulp, freshly squeezed red apple juice and orange juice, with a hint of jackfruit. The aroma on the top side of the glass has a hint of vanilla caramel combined with a light smoky flavor - the whole is a beautiful old wine. The raw nutty and buttery flavors of the old sherry cask will be more pronounced upon awakening, combined with a touch of new leather.

Taste

85 85

The sweetness of honey and the sourness of small orange water, the front part has a slightly ripe mango appearance, the bitterness of citrus peel and dark chocolate in the middle part of the taste is very prominent, the wine is high in fat, thick and full, and the flavor is obviously unbalanced. Alcohol is more irritating. After 50 minutes of waking up, the taste is greatly improved. The soft and glutinous durian, vanilla, roasted nuts, raw nuts, raw fennel and other flavors are full, the bitterness in the latter part is slightly reduced, and the stimulation of the wine body becomes weaker. Unfortunately, The flavor profile and level from front to back are relatively simple.

Finish

87 87

A little bit of citrus bitterness inherited from the palate, but the bitterness is gradually replaced by a sweet mint aftertaste, persistent, refreshing, with a touch of woody tannins.
insieme scored this whisky 95 points
29 Oct 2021 4:15 pm

JUST GREAT
olegborgol scored this whisky 94 points
03 Oct 2021 9:32 am

Nectar in a glass 23.5-23.5-23.5-23.5
Schollus scored this whisky 92 points
14 Jun 2021 11:25 am

Nose: salty spray, fresh coastal notes and the typical heather, brown sugar, créme brulée, herbal honey

Palate: toffee and caramel dominate, followed by sweet cherry and blackberry notes, somewhat medicinal and hints of cough syrup, sorrel, forest herbs

Finish: extremely long and expressive

Conclusion: One of these OBs from golden times, with a clear HP-DNA, character and addictive factor!
Petrenko scored this whisky 95 points
16 May 2021 5:16 pm

23,5/24/24/24
GadflyDrinker did not rate this whisky
26 Oct 2020 2:54 pm

These are amazing! I have a 1991 distilled, meaning there is 1960s highland park scotch in there!!!!! So excited to open it!

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