Highland Park 27yo TWA

[JohnnyV]

I'm sorry but knowledge about this 'Fungi series' has not reached me before. The bottle that will be available where I live tomorrow is a HP 27yo.
I'm just curious if anyone happens to have any info about this bottle, preferably if it's quality stuff or not and worth the £110.

I don't seem to find much written about this whisky, or perhaps I'm just terrible at using google.

[Pete Smoke]

Here's a start.

http://www.whiskyfun.com/archiveoctober11-1.html#041011

[JohnnyV]

Much obliged!

[whiskytime]

I know nothing about the whisky - But....what a label!! I like it! Now, that is what I call unique.

[mongo]

i have an as yet unopened bottle. so i can be no help at all except to confirm that the label is quite beautiful close up too. in fact, i'm not sure if the beauty of most of the whisky agency's labels doesn't cause me to spend more money on their bottles than i otherwise might.

[Pudge72]

Cool label...is there a particular story/marketing line that goes with the choice of labelling? I am curious...

[alec.tron]

Hey,
it seems to be something quite a few of german bottlers do (Agency, Wieber, and Faessle started recently with a Duck themed series...). I would think it's somewhat inspired by the (old) Moon Import bottlings from Italy, which were releasing series of bottles with a similar design topics (carnival, animals, birds, sea) (look look -> http://blog.thewhiskyexchange.com/galle ... on-import/ ), also there is a new one called Fetish from Moon, which is quite funny ( http://www.moonimport.it/jsp-moonimport ... ast+Fetish ).... alas, if you see the bottle prices, those will make you double-take & choke...
The Whisky Agency has been serializing their different releases in a similar manner for years. What you are looking at on the HP is part of 'The Bugs' series, but there's also Fungi, Sharks, Landscapes, Moody Lions, Grotesque Croques, Butterflies and so on. All beautifully made.
Also, I think this tickles' some peoples hunter & gatherer genes and the urge to be a complete-ist... which is obviously good for the bottler in terms of sales and the future 'collectability'... not so much for the purpose of what the whisky has been actually made for since, I would think, this also disencourages people to actually crack them open...

c.

[Pudge72]

Thank you for the info 'alec.tron'...much appreciated!

[JohnnyV]

It seems I am in fact a big sucker for packaging, since I absolutely love this type of labelling and I want a bottle not only for its content!