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Highland park viking honor12/8/2023 ![]() Heather honey | Rich fruitcake | Winter spices | Seville oranges | Aromatic smoky peat NATURAL CASK-DRIVEN COLOUR (NO ADDITIVES) Something magic happens here and the result is the wild harmony of flavours found in our whisky. Age, experience and respect for tradition may define our whisky, but it’s Orkney that sets it apart. We’ve been crafting our award-winning whisky at the Highland Park Distillery in Kirkwall, Orkney, since 1798. Why not try it with a handful of wasabi peas on the side or alongside a sizzling, pan-fried rib-eye steak or with smoked salmon and sour cream. Otherwise Viking Heart is also available from Asher BWS, Guild Collective and SimplyWhisky.sg.Matured predominantly in European and American sherry seasoned oak casks, our iconic 12 Year Old single malt whisky is spicy and well-rounded, packed with the flavours of sun-kissed Seville oranges and rich fruitcake spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves you’ll find molten heather honey in this whisky’s waves of heathery peat smoke. Those who love branded merch will love the complimentary Highland Park embossed leather whisky carrier (while stocks last), the perfect companion for your days of sailing and pillaging, or however your work is done in these strange, endemic times (just remember to follow the Viking code). Each purchase comes with complimentary flowers to upcycle the ceramic bottle post-drinks. The Highland Park 15 Year Old Viking Heart is available for retail at 1855 The Bottle Shop and selected Oak Cellars for S$149. We’d buy this just as an additional showpiece on our whisky mantle. So in that sense, the 15 Year Old is closer in taste and experience to the 12 Year Old.įor those into aesthetics, unlike its sibling expressions the Viking Heart comes in a ceramic bottle, inspired by earthernware vessels that would have been used to store whisky at the distillery in the past. The ceramic bottle is lead-free, 100% food safe, glazed both inside and outside, and comes embossed with the familiar Highland Park lion and serpent livery. The 18 Year Old has the advantage of a longer time in the cask that help round out flavours further and take the edge of alcohol burn. With some air, the whisky mellows and can end up tasting sweeter in the mouth. The new Viking Heart offers some sweet fruit and raisins on the nose, provided us with some citrus fruit and candy (probably toffee) in the mouth and ended with some spice, more white pepper than peat. The mouth has vanilla sponge cake, sun-kissed lemon zest, fresh pineapple and heather honey while the finish ends with some aromatic peat smoke. Does the Viking Heart taste mostly like the 12 Year Old, or come close to the crowd favourite 18 Year Old?Īccording to official tasting notes, the nose includes aromas of charred cinnamon and the famous smoke from Orkney’s heather peat. (The Viking Heart) retains more of the compounds which deliver a whisky with extra body and enhanced mouthfeel.” The new Highland Park 15 Year Old Viking Heart comes in a beautiful white ceramic bottle that will stand out in a whisky collection. The hand selection of quality first-fill and refill casks for Highland Park 15 Year Old delivers a rich colour which is 100% natural. “Vanilla and citrus notes lead and combine with the unique fragrant peat and creamy mouthfeel synonymous with Highland Park. ![]() “Our insistence on specially constructed sherry casks delivers a richness of flavour,” insisted Gordon Motion, Highland Park’s Master Whisky Maker. The oak casks provide the warm, spicy notes and the vanilla while the refill casks allows for some of the heather peat and fruit to come through. Then there’s the 18 Year Old launched in 1997 called Viking Pride.įast forward some 24 years to 2021, and now there’s Highland Park 15 Year Old Viking Heart that was just added to its core range.īottled at 44% ABV, the Highland Park 15 Year Old Viking Heart is matured mostly in sherry-seasoned American and European oak casks, as well as a few refill casks, very much like its siblings the Viking Honour and Viking Pride. It’s why its original Highland Park 12 Year Old, first introduced in 1979, was named Viking Honour. Truth, fidelity, and discipline were core tenets as well.īut that Viking code was something Orkney-based Highland Park – a distillery with deep Viking roots – took very seriously. Courage was one, especially on the battlefield. The Vikings of old were generally considered as brutish seafaring raiders from Scandinavia who plundered their way through much of Europe and beyond, so it’s too easy to forget there’s a strong code of honour its fierce warriors held to heart. Highland Park officially introduces its new core range addition, the Highland Park 15 Year Old Viking Heart, to Singapore.
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