Highland Park - 12 Years Old
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2010
- If you like what you are seeing on the channel we would love to get out and kick video production into full gear. You can help by becoming a sponsor for $5 per month. Check out the benefits by clicking on the link. / singlemalttv Gerry Tosh talks through the profile of Highland Park 12 YO from the malting floor of the Orkney distillery
I like this guy. Simple, non-pretentious and just passionate about whisky.
I have this pretentious friend that pride himself as this great whisky connoisseur, and always said he could taste "aged vanilla", "mature wildberries", "sun kissed strawberries from the slopes of Catalonia" etc so at a house party, we took a cheap bottle of Tullamore dew or something like that, and added a couple of drops of liquid smoke and poured it in a $100 Bunnahabhain Ceobanach bottle.... He didnt notice anything =)
This guy should be given a medal for being amazing at a no bullshit presentation. Just awesome. Thumbs up all around!
Couldn't agree more! What a pro!
"Uncorked AND tasted MY FIRST Highland Park, 12 year old! "Oh my." Such a wonderful, delightful experience. I LOVE the lightly smoky finish at the end. This was money well spent. A+++
Highland Park is one of our favorite whiskies. The 12yo is a beaut. If you have a chance try Valkyrie, for the price really exceptional.
That is the best description of how to interpret a whisky, I think I have heard
One of the best instructions on scotch I have seen.
The best advice I saw so far about Whisky tasting.
Still new to whisky ,I bought my first bottle of HP 12 today! Thank you for the wonderful Master Class.
Great presentation. Applause for a simple down to earth explanation of appreciating whisky.
great explanation and presentation
My wife is on the way home with a bottle of this right now! We're both experienced drinkers (mostly American Burbons and the like) but this will be our first Scotch Whisky ever! Have watched many reviews and read much advice on a first dram of Whisky and this one really seems to get a lot of praise.
Great presentation. I NEED that sweater!
Fantastic no BS presentation. Personally,I like the 12 yr old - i'm guessing this is one of those that matures quickly. (old definitely doesn't necessarily mean better. It just means old.)
Another exceptionally well done video!
Very good discretion!! Love highland Park 12!!
Very good video ! !I love highland Park~
I highly recommend watching this video with the closed captioning on, click on the CC in the corner. It is hilarious nonsense.
That being said, this is my favorite single malt right now.
Not enough thumbs up available for this video!
Well done Gerry!
Excellent video. Just started to taste whisky and keen to drink the right way.
Keep up the good work Gerry and tasting notes.
Excellent video, very informative! Thanks for sharing!
John Cook you’re welcome John. Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the comment.
You’re welcome John. Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the comment.
Excellent , just excellent .
Great information on tasting whisky. Cheers!
Great presentation1 My next purchase is going to be Highland Park. I have been researching this brand and like what I have learned! :) Cheers!
You won't be disappointed with Highland Park
What a refreshing story about the nosing en tasting the spirit. Great!
En = and
This guy knows what he’s talking about.
yes!!!! honesty from a distillery about the use of E150a !!!!
Gerry, it's the most satisfying noise IN THE WORLD.
@snakio Thanks for the comment. We will be sure to pass it on to Gerry. Cheers.
Best introduction to how to taste whisky I've seen
Excellent Info. Spirit drink is usually expensive, this way people can enjoy the the spirit more and worth the value of a good drink. Thanks.
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Awesome video
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Funny fact...i have the highland park 18yo and i find the 12yo experience better
Looking into drinking Scotch Whisky for the first time...This is the third time of me watching this so it burns into my mind what to do and why it's done. Your finesse is to be commended.
i love how scottsh people prenounce the spirit
I LIKE THIS GUY. No fucking bullshit.
Educational!
Wow. I could listen to this guy for hours (about whisky, of course). Straightforward, understandable, matter-of-fact and lucid. Who is he, and what other videos do you produce that feature him? Glancing at videos on your main page, I didn't see him. This is not to say that your other presenters might not be as good (or better!). But this guy is good. Subscribed. Edit: I think this guy is Gerry Tosh, and you do have quite a few videos with him. Thanks!
Andrew Sharpe thanks for the comment. His name is Gerry Tosh. He was the Brand Ambassador for Highland Park and we used to call him “one take Tosh” because he would nail it every time in one go. Check out all the Highland Park videos. Gerry features in pretty much all of them.
@@robdraperacs-cinematograph4154 Thanks! I discovered that, by starting to watch your videos. Highland Park is one of my favorite whiskies, so it is doubly interesting for me to watch.
I think his point is that color can only be a useful gauge if it is paired with other prior knowledge about the specific whiskey. Color only tells you something if you know first that no E150 is added etc. So color by itself isn't an accurate metric.
Colour is an indication of what sort of cask the spirit has been matured in. If it's darker, it might've been matured in Sherry casks, and if it's lighter it could be American oak. That tells you quite a lot. To say that its colour tells you 'absolutely nothing' is interesting. I like Gerry's common sense approach to whisky, but I'm not sure if I agree with him in this instance.
I think his point is that if colour is added, none of it matters. Fortunately, Highland Park is natural colour ;-)
HP 12 Y.O My first malt ever!
I haven't had a chance to purchase one of this Old H.Park 12 type. About the New H.Park 12, regardless about the more impressive looking bottle glass, I am wondering does it has the same %100 QUALITY as the Old H.Park 12 (I noticed that the New one has lighter color, is there any thing been changed ?.
Recently I saw a video of a couple. They own a whisky shop and they compared the actual, the recent one which you still can buy easily and the old one (round bottle). The old one was darker and had more sherry influence. The actual was lighter in color and slightly different to the recent one. Their conclusion was that every bottle tastes different but contained good quality. The man prefered the old version. His wife the actual. Can't remember the channel. But it was german.
I hold the whisky in my mouth for the amount that it has been aged. Something Richard Patterson taught me.
So 12 year old Whisky is held in your mouth 12 years then? ;-)
Still holding?
Consistently one of the best single malts i've come across although i have noticed of late, American white oak (Bourbon) characteristics creeping into the last few bottles i've purchased. Considering they only use European Sherry casks i'm starting to wonder whether they are using re-conditioned casks using American Wood?
+Eds UKGamerz He explains the color within the video found in this link. highlandpark.co.uk/shop/highland-park-12-year-old/
+Kelgogi ???? I was not talking about the colour. The colour is natural!! I'm talking about the flavour which has changed due to a change in wood types used.
+Eds UKGamerz You never specified that you were referring to the taste. Gerry explains the casks that they use specifically within the video as well. Now, I have no idea if the casks that they utilize has changed for the 12 year as the years have progressed as I am quite new to the 12 year expression myself. I've been drinking the 18 year expression since..ehh... maybe around 2002 or so. For that particular one, I think they have remained quite consistent.
+Kelgogi .... The colour of the whisky hasn't changed over the years i've been drinking the 12 year old but clearly the cask influence has changed as far as the taste goes, more vanilla notes/ fresh fruits rather than deeper/heavy fruits. I wouldn't pay too much attention to this video now as like you said it is over 5 years old but if they are still using European oak casks for maturation then i'm willing to bet that a fair number of them have been reconditioned using american oak..hence the flavour "wagon wheel" has changed and not for the better.
Visit Ralfy, he also says the same.
+Eds UKGamerz Good to know! I'm excited to try it this Christmas for the first time.
Guys the reason he said color tells you nothing is because he is speaking to his audience, in this case a newbie to drinking whisky. A novice whisky drinker won't know which whiskys have color added and which don't, so for his targets audience it is a true statement
The first tasting of a whisky where a man describes exactly what it is cuz the same thing happened when i drank my highland park
This was a very very good whisky. If you bought this stuff at the time of this review, you would have been very happy, indeed. The more recent offerings are weak and dilute. Beware.
Hilarious !
I realise that, but Gerry was quite emphatic about colour telling you nothing about the spirit. That's the only reason I saw fit to comment. I realise he is a professional with years of experience, which is why I was surprised that he didn't qualify his point with a caveat.
I tell ladies the same thing when they...you know. That they should think about what's happening in their mouth and the sensation they are experiencing :-P
Completely disagree with what he says about colour (or rather how he said it). When you're dealing with whiskies that genuinely are natural colour (having had independent bottles from the same distillery, all around the same age with colours ranging from almost gin clear to golden amber to mahogany) it can tell you an awful lot. I get the point he's trying to make, you should not buy or judge a whisky over another whisky solely because it is darker as the darker whisky may have a lot of colouring in it. It therefore is up to whisky producers that don't add caramel colouring to state so on the bottle (which they generally do) so we can make informed decisions and it improves the experience knowing without any doubt that the colour isn't fake. Ironically Highland Park don't state on the bottle it is natural colour so despite what he says in the video we can only assume it isn't. Why would you not state a fact on a product which is a positive attribute?
+Ailios I think all he was saying was to beware of colored whiskies... but maybe he could have worded it better...
+DJS Highland Park has always stated that they never add artificial coloring to their expressions. highlandpark.co.uk/shop/highland-park-12-year-old/
+Kelgogi Show me where they state that on the bottle.
+DJS They state that in all of their interviews, videos, and on their site itself - which I was kind enough to paste for your perusal. I have not seen it personally on their bottle. You're running on the assumption that all distilleries write that down on their label - which is incorrect. Cheers, and happy Christmas.
+Kelgogi The brand ambassador can say what he likes, if they don't say it on the bottle it doesn't mean shit. That's the only place it matters and that's all there is to it.
No Chinese subtitles, you 'll lose a lot of viewers.