1991 Signatory Vintage 35th Anniversary Highland Park 32 Year Old Cask Strength Single Malt Scotch Whisky (700ml)

"...there is a commendable ruggedness in this old Highland Park." - whiskyfun.com

Sourced from a first-fill Oloroso sherry butt and released in celebration of Signatory`s 35th birthday, this 32-year-old beauty promises an HP of a very high standard, balanced and complex, combined with delicate smoke, sweetness, oranges and dark chocolate complementing the sooty peat. One taster commented, "It's unbelievable how much smoke a Highland Park can still have after so long in the barrel. I would have blindly put it on Islay. Impressive dram!" (whiskybase.com). Pay nearly twice the price for the official 30 year old! The yield was 557 bottles at 53.4% Alc./vol. Non chill filtered. Extremely limited.

Other reviews... To my generation of whisky enthusiasts, so the youngsters, right, Signatory was and remains a very seminal bottler. The whisky world would be completely different without Signatory, perhaps still full of caramel and heavily cold-filtered uisge beatha. We owe a lot to Andrew and Signatory. Colour: deep gold. Nose: starts with a little cider or Sauternes-sulphur, with some hops, leaves, walnut skins, some gunpowder, then we have oil paint, clay, mushrooms, mustard à l'ancienne, pickled gherkins… I have to say this is a little intriguing and rather very Andalusian. Let's see how it evolves… With water:  cigars, cedarwood, figs and forgotten vegetable gratin. Parsnip, swede, cardoon… Mouth (neat): walnuts roasted in honey sauce and quite some gunpowder again. Chocolate, white truffles, touch of pointed cabbage and bok choy. Some demerara sugar. With water: awesome salted praline and nougat, earth, walnut liqueur, amaro… Finish: long and rather all on walnut wine. A little mustard, grapefruit, roasted chestnuts and pecans in the aftertaste. Comment: there is a commendable ruggedness in this old Highland Park. It seems like a real sherry cask, which held actual sherry, actually intended for human consumption. It improves with exposure to air, it just needs quite some time. Yet another 91-pointer. 91 points - whiskyfun.com