The 5 Most "Classic" HIGHLAND Scotch Whiskies (according to whisky lovers)

Geesh what a weird list. Can't believe you overlooked such whiskys like Glencadam for example yet you put Highlandpark in....nah...

great I Think You Should Leave reference

Always show the name of the scotch in the lower right corner!!!

"Sweet vs Heft" ya... i'm sipping a Glen Garioch 12 and an Aberlour 12 right now... 100% the Speysides are sweet and smooooooth compared to the Highlands which are going in a few directions.

It's also weird that Aberlour is consider Speyside vs Glen Garioch considered a Highland while they are like 42 miles from each other basically in the same general vicinity...

GlenMorangie 10 number 1?

I like it... but it's extremely simple... caramel colored, chill filtered. I don't think this should belong to the top 5 list let alone number 1. Not bad though, but it's a first timer scotch.

Yeap, Glenmorangie is definitely Highland.

Another Highland whisky that I enjoy, although not a classic, is Glencadam.

I wasn't expecting an I Think You Should Leave reference in a Highland scotch video

This channel is great while imbibing.
Gotta try #1.

For the price Oban or Dalwhinnie are spectacular. The most shocking is the cost of ones from Islay that even 15yrs ago cost over $95 when Oban was $65. If you're one of those weirdos that day they like the peat moss Flavor I'd call bullshit and your just vying for snob points by saying that. Seriously who wants their high end whisky to taste literally like burnt potting soil. Which peat moss most certainly does taste like. Even that one time my buddy and I tried a bottle of bagpiper from India that tastes like rubbing alcohol was the main source of it's alcohol and that literally had a crusty fingerprint from whichever guy boxed the bottle back in India on it didn't have me regretting the purchase as much. It had Bagpiper a blend of scotch whiskies (maybe a quarter shot at best) select indian malts (whatever they are) and neutral alcohol ( hence the rubbing alcohol taste) I'll never forget that marketing spiel on the box or the Indian guy wearing a turban, kilt and pulsing the bagpipes was still drinkable. I couldn't drink the dirt whisky at all and I did try. Also giving it away was also hard once I let a potential victim try a taste first. No one wanted the stuff. It was that bad. And it wasn't the brand either which was Bowmore as I fucked up without realizing that the peat thing was an Islay problem not a Bowmore problem. It didn't even warn me that time. Since then I triple check to make sure it's not from Islay regardless of whether or not it has peat in it. It seriously hurt my willingness to try new scotches out of fear and if the clerk can't verify the Islay origin or possibility of peat then I am really frightened of risking a chance bottle over a known good one. It took the fun out of picking new single malts for sure. That acquired taste is bollocks. I've eaten lamb brains and other initially off putting weirdness by turning off that preconception of what I expect something to taste like and judge it on that perky if it doesn't match. I learned how to do that as a kid with liver and onions. Only brussel sprouts and peat moss has been a real issue for me. I'm not fussy at all. Fucking peat moss you savages
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I recently picked up bruichladdich and I noticed their bottle is painted. You can’t see the color of the whisky at all. I then saw that they have on their label that they don’t use coloring. I poured a glass and it was a lot lighter than what I’m used to seeing. It makes sense to paint the bottles. I’d love to see more scotches go this rout and not use coloring.

Love Highland Park

Can you guys do a bunch of Highland Park tastings? It’s my favorite and I wanna know what your tasting notes are.

You have the community vote on these lists. They many times have picked Damore to be on them.Your audience. Yet you constantly bring up the E150. They know and we know it’s in there. You’ve stated in past videos especially in the beginning that as long as it’s transparent no problem. So why do you feel the need to say it every single time. Many whiskeys use it but I don’t hear you constantly call it out. Has your stance changed? Please respond.

Everyone should have The Glenlivet 12, Glenmorangie Original and Glenfiddich 12 on their shelf.

Classic Highland whisky but no mention of Clynelish or Blair Athol....
How did that happen?
Glenmorangie is as light as paper.

Oban 14 my favourite

Cannot agree with you on the Dalmore 12. At 40% ABV, un-natural colour and chill filtered, it is heavily over-priced in any part of the world. That's what sucks!

Am I reading that t-shirt correctly i.e. Pride of Ireland...SCOTCH WHISKEY?

Hell yes! Oban 14... I get the old leather on this AND Glenmorangie Original... Love this as its also the base for most of their other finishes.

Hmmm...So, what about Jura? Is is Highland or Island? Yes, I know you are sayingk that the Island whiskies are really in the Highland category, but I think of the Island whiskeys as a category of their own...with that salt water influence. I'm a fan of Highland single malts myself (Glen Morangie, Dalmore, Aberlour, & Dalwhinnie), but Highland Park Einar is the best example of a really decent Island single malt that is the top pick in the price category I can afford. The trouble is, that particular variety was limited to sale at Duty Free shops and isn't available anywhere in the US (so far as I can tell), so I'm left with the 12 year. ("A little more salt and smoke than Dalmore," is dead on.) And the Oban? It is from a site on the mainland (of Scotland), but it is at the shore and is the gateway to the northern Hebrides....strong saltwater island influence, so I consider it an Island whiskey. And, I thought Jura a decent contender.


Go, Glenmorangie! I'm a fan of their Quinta Ruban. In the same taste category, for me, at least, is the Lowland whiskey Auchentoshan Three Barrel.

It's a decent list, though I'm not sure I'd rank them that way. In no particular order, my 5 "classics" would be:
Glengoyne 12
Arran 10
Clynelish 14
Gledronach 15
Tamdhu 12

So hellofresh charges you more for less food and I have to cook and do dishes...... I could just get a wife or a whiskey and some instant noodles

I love mehr some highland park. My experience with whisky is really limited so far. But I got my self a bottle of highland park spirit of the bear. And I went from I like this to I fucking love it!

But you gave me some other nice suggestions so looking forward to try those :D

Scotch is spelt whisky

I like glenmorangie ..🥃

Clynelish 14 has to be there. I would get rid of the Dalmore. Glengoyne for the sherried highlander experience. Also love Ben Nevis 10.

Jazzmen…. 😉

Gonna try Johnny walker for my first scotch

Always looking for the more viscous and unfiltered… if the ‘legs’ are there and the flavor lingers. Underrates would be Glenfarclas… not over sulfured from trying to recharge casks like others using sherry and more range complexity of flavor if you sit with the 12… malt, dark fruit and some light fruit, slight tobacco (really shows up in the 21) and the taste lingers (the lighter oils … the taste vanishes fast).
Highland Park …heather peat… mild taste of the heather in Dalwhinnie.

Man, i would love to sit at that table

I love everything you guys do i mean that collection alone is insane 😍😍. Only note i would add as from a whisky based bartender in edinburgh, we tend to use islands as a seperate category as you say talisker,scapa and highland park ect do have a unique taste unlike highland especially that salty briney note from talisker. So i would generally describe single malts as lowlands,speyside,highlands, campbeltown,islay and islands. So you have a little give and take for a future video 😊😍✌

For me, a tiny drop of water in an Oban releases a whole world of flavours but I smoke cigarettes so what do I know.

In my opinion Glenmorangie Original is one of the most boring Scotches. I do love the Nectar D'or though.

Would like to see the Cambeltown's region reviewed :D

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Highland park is my favorite scotch. its so nice on a cool fall evening by a campfire. the very best.

The salt in the Oban 14 is because you can literally throw a stone from the distillery into the sea, which is across the road. But it is very must on the mainland, it just happens to be beside the sea which give it an Island malt feel.

Watching from Delhi India 🙏

Lovely

I an for the west course and love I try to bie whiskeys I can afford as don’t much spare Glenmorangie 10 is good jura 10 is good for me oid pulteney 12 if I had extra money and and wont to treat myself Ardnamurcnan is good very good for me good video Ceip it up

For those unfamiliar with honeysuckle, I often associate the floral scent in highlands with plumeria flowers. They are the yellow-throated, silky white flowers in Hawai'ian leis, among other things. YMMV

If you buy Dalmore you are saying what they're doing is just fine, keep it up Whyte and Mackay. You are the MacDonalds of whisky.

The snobs criticizing Dalmore's colouring have a point considering how snob Dalmore is with its prices...

HP12 is the best value on this list, IMO.
Glenmorangie, a close 2nd.

Highland Park has all the region tastes to me.

Hah! Dalmore and Fig Newtons... I am vindicated!

5. Old Pulteney 15, 4. Oban 14, 3. Deanston 12, 2. Glenmorangie 10, 1. Clynelish 14.

Deanston 12 is the only one that has eluded landing on my shelves - best I go do some kungfu! :)

Did dry week 100%, started getting sick on the last day. RIP. So currently in an "extended involuntary indefinite inebriation abstention." Still got coffee though

I'd have to disagree with Glenmorangie having 'weight' compared to the likes of a Speyside. I've always found Glenmorangie to be a delicate, honeyed, almost candied whisky with not a lot of body. And certainly their manufacture supports this - they proudly boast of having some of the tallest, narrowest stills in Scotland, meaning much greater reflux and a lot of the hefty, 'meaty' flavour molecules and oily texture molecules will be much less likely to make it into the cut.
That's not to say it doesn't deserve to be on the list - just that I'd argue it doesn't represent that theory that highland malts are heavier and 'meatier'. Stick it next to a Glenfarclas or an Aberlour and it's like comparing lemon mousse to christmas cake.