Code
Distillery
Highland Park
Name
Fireworks on Orkney
Producer
SMWS
Region
Highland
Age
15 years
ABV
62.3%
Bottler Type
Independent
Category
Scotch
Flavor Profile
Lightly Peated
The whisky presents clover honey and heather flowers alongside bonfire embers, seared padron peppers, and barbecued shellfish. On reduction, driftwood, toasted marshmallows, and stargazy pie emerge with pumpernickel bread notes.
Intense and fiery, this cask delivers perfumed smoke, burnt lavender, and woodfire ash balanced with lime, vanilla, and cumin. Further palate development reveals burnt toast, chalk, tulips, olive oil cake, and salty margarita notes with pungent oak.
The finish displays a funky and playful character, with lingering ash, oak spice, and the mineral saltiness that carries through from the palate.
We combined selected eight-year-old casks from this distillery, then returned the single malt into various casks to develop further. This is one of those. The nose combined clover honey and heather flowers with bonfire embers, seared padron peppers and barbecued shellfish. The palate’s intense, fiery whack of perfumed smoke, burnt lavender and woodfire ash also suggested lime, vanilla, cumin and pungent oak. On the reduced nose, we gathered driftwood from a rocky shore, toasted marshmallows on the fire and enjoyed stargazy pie with pumpernickel bread. The palate had burnt toast, chalk and tulips, olive oil cake and salty margaritas. Funky and fun.