Much more enjoyable out in the open (Highland Park 12 Year Old Whisky)

Member Name: woodburnr

Product:	Highland Park 12 Year Old Whisky
Date:	11/07/01 (152 review reads)
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Advantages: Strong flavours, Smooth, Warming

Disadvantages: price

Firstly lets clear up any confusion. Whisky takes two forms. The first and real form is malt whisky. The second is blended whisky, which is what most people have tasted once, spat or dribbled down their shirts/blouse and vowed never to touch again. (like a fine Sancerre v's liebfaumilch)

Malt whisky is like fine wine, there are loads of types with different tastes, aromas and history. If you have never tasted malt whisky try it, you never know you might love it.

Anyway, Highland Park is one of my big favourites. It has a very strong flavour, a mixture of seaweed, salt and peat (which sounds awful) but is actually delicious.

A little known fact about whisky is that it tastes much nicer when drunk out in the open. Hip flasks did not just happen by accident. Nothing is nicer when out on a walk or playing a round of golf, to have a small nip, enjoy the smooth flavours as they wash over you, feel the warmth flow through your body and savour the uplift in your outlook on life.

Highland Park is one of the more expensive brands and is probably the best known of the Orkney malts. The distillery was established over 220 years ago and they have perfected the knack of producing a fantastic tipple.

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