Highland Park Full Volume
Single Malt Scotch Whisky
47.2% ABV
$100
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What the Distillery Says
Some things in life are best enjoyed in their most intense forms. This includes your closest friendships, your favourite songs, and exceptionally intense single malt whiskies. Full Volume is a robust, beautifully balanced whisky, exclusively matured in Kosher certified ex-bourbon casks, rather than our traditional sherry casks. This allowed us to turn up the volume on those succulent creamy bourbon notes. Distilled in 1999, the resulting 17-year jam session of maturation yielded an ABV of 47.2% and was bottled and released in 2017. The intense flavour profile delivers creamy vanilla and light citrus fruits, all balanced out by Highland Park’s characteristic smokiness.
NATURAL CASK-DRIVEN COLOUR (NO ADDITIVES)
Light straw, clear and bright
FLAVOURS: Vanilla | Coconut | Mango | Pineapple | Cedar Wood | Lemon peel | Vanilla pods | Light smoke
Full Volume was created by:
- Using 100% FIRST-FILL BOURBON CASKS rather than sherry seasoned ones
- Combining 200 LTR BARRELS and 250 LTR HOGSHEADS
- Filling 481 CAKS on the 30th March; 29th April; 10th, 17th and 31st August; 7th September – All during 1999
- Filling at strengths of between 63.6% AND 63.7%
- Filtered at +4 degrees C
Richard Burton from Kirkwall, was our warehouseman when these casks were laid down – he is still working with us!
TASTING NOTES
Full Volume is a 1999 Vintage, intensely balanced, single malt Scotch whisky. Naturally PALE AND BRIGHT in colour, it delivers a LIGHT PEATY AROMA, punctuated with WARM FRUITY NOTES of exotic mango and pineapple and an echo of cedar wood. Warm and generous in the mouth, a SWEET CITRUS treble of lemon peel perfectly offsets deeper bass notes of CREAMY VANILLA while subtle mid-tones of LIGHT SMOKE maintain an enticing harmony.
What Gary Says
Nose: Honey malt, peat, heather, grassy, bit of vanilla, hint of sea salt and iodine.
Palate: Malty vanilla, bit of soft citrus with pears, bit of peat, pepper and a hint of mandarin oranges.
Finish: Moderately long, drying with honeyed peat and pepper spice.
Comments: I like Highland Park, and did my best to not try to think of this like Highland Park as it would be a departure without the sherried maturation. I didn’t find anything off putting, but for the money, I would be disappointed. Left me unimpressed, although it is an interesting view into the distillate and maturation without the sherry influence. Dangerously drinkable, but a tad forgettable for me.