Highland Park Capella 40% NV

Professional reviews

Serge Valentin (85)

Colour: straw. Nose: very fragrant at first nosing, expressive, typically Highland Park with quite some honey and heather, slightly tarry and smoky. Some notes of rum, fruit cake, apricot liqueur, mirabelle jam… It’s not overly complex but nicely balanced and rather ‘present’. Also something distantly coastal… And some praline. Colour: very nice attack, with quite some sherry and fruitcake, toasted bread and burnt caramel, vanilla crème… Rather sweet and rounded but not ‘sleepy’. Something curiously Macallanish (the 12yo), and it’s quite rich at 40% ABV. A certain creaminess. The finish is rather long, balanced, very classical. I really like it: