Highland Park 11-year-old (D.1988, B.1999) Millenium Edition Signatory Vintage / 43%/1.5l
- At the turn of the Century most whisky companies released commemorative editions to celebrate the new Millennium.
Product description
Most whisky producers, including of course independent publishers, celebrated the new millennium with commemorative limited editions.
As a rule, these were quite expensive editions of old whisky offered in a rich presentation. The Signatory Vintage company did not quite follow a similar path, preparing excellent, although relatively young, but at the same time carefully selected whiskies. One of them was the Highland Park presented here, a whisky distilled on November 23, 1988 and aged in a sherry butt cask no. 11731 for over 11 years. The millennium edition hit the market on December 9, 1999 in an edition of 490 1.5 liter bottles.
Nose: lightly smoky sherry, milk chocolate, raisins, dried orange peel, pink grapefruit, black coffee, walnuts, honey, caramel, a bit of herbs and oak.
Palate: rich, sherry-soaked raisins, toffee, bitter orange jam, prunes, caramel, toffee, honey, Christmas gingerbread, licorice, nutmeg, a pinch of pepper and oak.
Finish : quite long, with notes of honey, toffee, orange peel, roasted nuts, cocoa, nutmeg and a fleeting trace of smoke.