Taster

Nose: Full and rich. Dry grass, light peat, lanolin. Touch of perfume, (heather bells) fudge, kumquat. Fine-framed oak.

Palate: Excellent weight. More fruity than nose suggests with good balance between firm oak and sweet, butter tablet mid-palate. Complex.

Finish: Fragrant smoke.

Comment: A beauty-but what else would you expect from HP?

Score: 8.3

Taster

Nose: Flapjack, warm from the oven. Cooked morello cherries.

Palate: Sweetly smoky. Flavours well integrated and contained. Slow, disciplined, development.

Finish: Firm, powerful, straight-ahead. Rounded with a suggestion of mint toffee.

Comment: The more heavily-sherried expressions of Highland Park seem more open in displaying their charms.

Score: 8.5