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  1. Highland Park distillery in collaboration with Laila Gohar presented a 17yo «Between You and I» Single Malt. this release is led by new American oak casks, 47.5% ABV. £122
    #HighlandPark #whisky
    www.highlandparkwhisky.com/en/product/b...

  2. alojapan.com/1544891/ine-in-hi Ine in Highland Park May be Los Angeles’s Most Versatile Japanese Bistro #ChefDeCuisine #CrispyRice #FrenchCuisine #HighlandPark #Ine #JapaneseCuisine #JapaneseRestaurant #SeaBream Ine is Highland Park’s newest go-to for many different scenarios: a date night with hand rolls and sake, a quick meal of noodles or gyudon, or a group outing tasting through the menu’s different sections. Ine calls itself a Japanese bistro, although it, in certain

  3. Ine in Highland Park May be Los Angeles’s Most Versatile Japanese Bistro

    Ine is Highland Park’s newest go-to for many different scenarios: a date night with hand rolls and sake, a quick meal of noodles or gyudon, or a group outing tasting …
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchcuisine #chefdecuisine #crispyrice #francais #france #French #HighlandPark #Ine #japanesecuisine #SeaBream
    diningandcooking.com/2831274/i

  4. Seattle City Light is reporting a medium outage in the Highland Park area.

    Start Date: Sep 25  5:29 PM
    Cause: Investigating

    #SeattleCityLightOutage #SCLOutage #HighlandPark #Seattle

  5. 🌟 Make voting visible in Highland Park. Join the honk-and-wave visibility action Oct. 17. Every eligible voter deserves the opportunity to be heard. mobilize.us/nokingsalerts/even #NoKings #NoKingsVoteEarly #HighlandPark #NJ

  6. 📣 Highland Park: Join the Vote Early rally Oct. 17, 11:30 AM-1 PM at South Adelaide Avenue. Show up for democracy and voter participation. mobilize.us/nokingsalerts/even #NoKings #NoKingsVoteEarly #HighlandPark #NJ

  7. Highland Park’s gourmet Korean convenience store

    Mokja brings Korean-inspired convenience store charm to Highland Park Guest: Debbie Lee, co-owner of Mokja, a Korean-inspired market-cafe…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #cafe #conveniencestore #dumplings #handpie #HighlandPark #Korean #masubi #mokja #oxtail
    europesays.com/korea/136145/

  8. Angie Harmon: Actriz estadounidense nacida el 10 de agosto de 1972.

    Angie Harmon, una actriz estadounidense, nació el 10 de agosto de 1972 en Highland Park, Estados Unidos. Este hecho significativo marca el comienzo de una exitosa carrera en la industria del entretenimiento. A la edad de 15 años, Harmon ganó el concurso de modelaje de Seventeen en 1987, lo que la l…

    #Akerix #IA #AngieHarmon #HighlandPark #IMGModels
    akerix.com/es/on-this-day/08-1
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  9. Mokja, a Korean Market and Cafe, Opens in Highland Park

    The all-day concept brings a self-serve ramen bar, Korean-inflected coffee drinks and a curated retail shop to the…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #cafe #HighlandPark #Korean #koreancuisine
    europesays.com/korea/112276/

  10. independent #whisky bottler One Cask at a Time has a 27yo Highland Park 1996 single cask in their Grandfather collection. Presentation of a bottle is interesting as a borthday’s present for friend. 43.4% ABV. Price is £699
     #HighlandPark #OneCaskataTime
    onecaskatatime.com/products/hig...

  11. St. Paul golf courses may get lights, extended hours, mini golf

    St. Paul golf courses may soon be allowed to add lighting — which could lead to later hours…
    #Golf #News #highlandpark #localnews #sports #StPaul
    europesays.com/golf/45181/

  12. Seattle City Light is reporting a medium outage in the Highland Park area.

    Start Date: Jul 22 9:26 AM
    Cause: Investigating

    #SeattleCityLightOutage #SCLOutage #HighlandPark #Seattle

  13. Hype for the Future 212O: Highland Park and Highwood, Illinois

    Overview The Cities of Highland Park and Highwood are notable smaller cities located in the southeastern portion of Lake County in the State of Illinois, associated with the Route 41 corridor to the west and Lake Michigan to the east, with Cook County located slightly to the south. Overall, the communities are each home to notable restaurants and bar areas as well as art centers.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  14. Highland Park votes to leave Dallas transit system

    Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Dallas #HighlandPark #UnitedStates #Us #USA #WellBHomepage
    newsbeep.com/518676/

  15. @Priyajsridhar
    What would my muse demand to end a strike?

    A good night's sleep and a bottle of 21-year-old Highland Park scotch whiskey.

    #Writephant #HighlandPark

  16. These are a mixed bag.

    The Highland Park Whisky was included with admission to the tasting that kicked off this year's Go Whiskey Week at Julio's Liquors

    The Amrut Malt Gurus is one of the Greedy Angels. I already have the 10 Year, but I had not previously seen this Peated Sherry Finish, so that will be interesting to compare.

    And the Single Cask Nation Teaninich I grabbed after a recent gathering where we tried some Teaninich and really enjoyed it. Plus I get to support SCN and my friend Joshua Hatton.

    #Whiskey #Whisky #Scotch #SingleCaskNation #Amrut #HighlandPark #Teaninich

  17. I think they took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.

    #BugsBunny #LA #HighlandPark

  18. WNBA shows Highland Park’s Reese Crosby ‘what it takes’

    Highland Park senior forward Reese Crosby has been around basketball all her life. Crosby’s mother, Ann, is the…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #WNBA #highschoolsports #HighlandPark #Illinois #lakecounty #lakecountynews-sun #lakecountynews-sunsports #localnews #Sports
    newsbeep.com/us/447213/

  19. Hmm I see the time creep for the next Top of the Pops has started as it is now 10:15pm but seeing how much snooker is potentially left in this match I'm not sure if we will get any more music tonight. Which is a shame as I've poured a glass of very nice whisky from Highland Park #TOTP #HighlandPark

  20. Saturday night was a very special night, for several reasons. As some of you know, this past year was a tough one as my father was diagnosed early on with terminal lung cancer, and subsequently suffered a few health crises which had him in the ICU a couple of times. For most of the past year, Jess & my lives were occupied with helping him, and visiting him regularly in New York. We were happy to do it, but it did mean a pause in our usual get togethers with friends, which we missed.

    On December 10th, 2025, my father succumbed to his cancer. As you might expect, the subsequent weeks have been full of grief, and paperwork. Even death has bureaucracy.

    December 10th was also the day that the Compass Box Whisky Confluence auction at Bonhams Skinner, to benefit The Wolfsonian-FIU, ended. I'd been watching the auction, but uncertain about bidding - despite being a longtime Compass Box fanatic. However, after my father passed early that morning, I decided that I needed something good to go with the day - and that was going to be winning Confluence, which I did. You only live once, as was painfully clear that day.

    My birthday is at the end of December, and we had planned a small gathering with friends to celebrate - but Jess & I both came home from my father's services in NY under the weather, and not really in a celebratory mood, so we cancelled that.

    Instead, yesterday we had a gathering which was partly a delayed birthday celebration, partly a toast to my father's memory, and partly an exploration of a truly unique whisky. But, more than anything, it was a gathering of good friends for the first time in quite a while - and boy did I need that more than I realized.

    Thank you Jess, Jer, Shamala, Marc, Lizzy, Lisa, Carol, Friski and Betsy for making the evening wonderful.

    Before we could dive into the whisky, we had to put something in on stomachs - so we had an assortment of my father's favorites, in his honor. There was an antipasto salad, some veggies and cheese, meatballs and sauce (for subs or over pasta), pickle soup (the Cafe Polonia recipe), kielbasa and sauerkraut, pierogi, a texas sheet cake, rice pudding, cupcakes, and some fine Läderach chocolates.

    Properly fueled, we attacked the mission of the evening.

    We'd assembled a lineup of whiskies for the evening - of course, there was the Confluence, but we also pulled some expressions from the component distilleries. Obviously, these were not *the* components used to make Confluence, but it was just a fun way to try a few things.

    We'd lined up Mackmyra, a Gordon & MacPhail Miltonduff, a G&M Macallan, a Highland Park 25, a Flora & Fauna Teaninich, and a Glen Moray (which was peated, it was what we had). We also had a couple of whiskies from Nashoba Valley Distillery, right here in town - Papa's Bourbon and the Stimulus Twenty 20 year old American Single Malt. Thanks to Marc Follit, our good friend, neighbor, and distiller at Nashoba, for bringing those.

    Oh, yes, and there is also the Black Tot Rum Last Consignment. It seemed like another special bottle to open - after the whiskies.

    We started off with the Confluence, so that we'd have clear palates - the better to taste it with. Whisky reviewer extraordinaire, Friski Whiski, agreed to write up a joint review with input from the whole crew, and we spent quite a bit of time on that. A most enjoyable time it was, too. We avoided reading the official tasting notes before creating our own, and were pleased to see that our notes ended up aligning fairly well with the official ones once we were done.

    Friski posted the review on his page (facebook.com/friski.whiski/pos), but here it is:
    ---START---
    Dram of a lifetime on 1/10/26

    Compass Box
    Confluence
    Blended Malt Whisky
    Age: NAS
    Abv: 48.9%
    No. of bottles: 1

    Components:
    The Mackmyra Distillery
    Swedish Single Malt
    Cherry Wine Fresh Seasoned American Oak
    9%

    The Mackmyra Distillery
    Swedish Single Malt
    Oloroso First Fill Sherry Seasoned American Oak
    9%

    The Mackmyra Distillery
    Swedish Single Malt
    American First Fill & Virgin Oak Casks
    9%

    The Mackmyra Distillery
    Swedish Single Malt
    Swedish Virgin Oak & First Fill Casks
    3%

    Teaninich Distillery
    Scottish Single Malt
    First Fill Sherry Butt
    12%

    Miltonduff Distillery
    Scottish Single Malt
    First Fill Bourbon Barrel
    12%

    Highland Park Distillery
    Scottish Single Malt
    Recharred Hogshead
    3%

    The Macallan Distillery
    Scottish Single Malt
    First Fill Bourbon Barrel
    14%

    Glen Moray Distillery
    Scottish Single Malt
    First Fill Bourbon Barrel
    15%

    Glen Moray Distillery
    Scottish Single Malt
    First Fill Bourbon Barrel
    15%

    Availability: 1 of 1 bottle. Bonhams auction house event "Art & Alchemy of Spirits: Presenting Compass Box to Benefit the Wolfsonian".

    Crowd source notes: MegaZone, Jess Terry, Jer Johnson, Shamala Rao, Marc Follit, Lizzy Nicolai, Lisa Mulvehill, Carol Ann, Betsey Hendricks, and Friski Whiski.

    Color: Medium honey and golden syrup

    Neat (without water)
    Nose: Soft and crisp. Honey, green apple, marzipan, cooked caramelized pineapple, confectioner’s sugar, lemon citrus, orange peel, with hints of cardamom and anise.

    Texture: Warm. Creamy, buttery, slightly drying through the finish and pleasantly astringent.

    Palate: Apple blossom honey, honey comb, marzipan, caramel, and birchwood. Swedish Kanelbulle (which is a classic Scandinavian cinnamon bun, spiced with cardamom in the dough, less gooey and use a lighter cinnamon application).

    Finish: A roller coaster ride of white pepper, fresh green olive oil, saline, toasted almonds, fine Corinthian leather, oak, grapefruit pith, and oleo saccharum.

    Unleash the serpent (with water)
    Nose: An orchard house of fruit moved to the forefront. Pear, apple frangipane, sliced almonds, sweet cracked malt and fresh cream. Birchbeer float with vanilla bean ice cream. Lakrits, lemon blossoms where floral and citrus combine into a confluence of marriage.

    Texture: Creamy, buttery, woody without the tannic astringency.
    Palate: Baked apple dumplings, roasted butternut squash, demerara sugar, sweet cream, and candied meyer lemon.

    Finish: Earthy notes get amplified. Warm spiced sweet potato pie with a pastry crust, sea spray, salted caramel, walnut skins, and toffee with subtle hints of a gentle smoke.

    Tasting notes glass used: Open Up Chef and Sommelier 5.5oz glass.
    The morning after glass: Sweet cracked malt, dust, vanilla, and caramel

    Pairings...
    Season: Any

    Music: Lovefool by The Cardigans

    Food: Rosemary pork loin with homemade applesauce

    Media: Best enjoyed with great company and good conversation.

    Overall: From first nose to final sip, several of us ended up in a journey from an apple orchard to our grandmother's seaside cottage while various desserts were being cooked. Fantastic debut from Angela D'Orazio at Compass Box! We really look forward to her future creations.
    ---END---

    As you can see, we loved it. This is a fantastic whisky, IMHO, and I'm thrilled that we were able to try it. Whisky is for sharing, not for staring. It would have been a crying shame for this to sit on someone's shelf, never to be tasted. You can tell we enjoyed it - we went through about 1/3 of the bottle compiling those tasting notes. ;-)

    Afterwards we did taste through the other whiskies - which were good, but kind of paled a bit after Confluence. The Mackmyra was well-loved as well, and you can see the influence in Confluence. The other standout for the group was the Flora & Fauna Teaninich - really good. Enough so that we're going to be looking for more Teaninich at auctions to try in the future.

    Really, everything was good - and, more importantly, we had a lot of laughs and great conversation trying them.

    After we ran the line of whisky, we did open the Last Consignment - and I figured out why it comes with two extra corks! The cork in the bottle is fully seated and covered in wax - so you have to pull it like a wine bottle, and it isn't really designed to go back in. So you use one of the supplied corks to reseal the bottle. Mystery solved!

    It is a very rich, unctuous rum that those who tried enjoyed. It is also liquid history, and it was special just to be trying it. The previous evening I'd also read through the little booklet that is included, going through the history of the rum and rituals in the Royal Navy, and that was quite interesting.

    The molasses note is front and center, but there are tropical fruits, spices, chocolate, leather, a bit of funk (there has to be some Jamaican rum in there)... a really thought-provoking sip.

    As the evening ran down, and some of the crew left for home, we decided to keep the evening going with a few additional drams. So I grabbed some Glenmorangie. We hit Year of the Snake first - I'd opened this, but some of the others had not had a chance. This is still a standout dram - a blend of ex-Bourbon and Amontillado finishing casks.

    They we opened the Rare Cask 21 year Mizunara finish. As expected, this is a very fine whisky, but the Snake was still in the lead by consensus.

    And we last turned to the new 25 year, The Altus. This is mostly aged in designer bourbon casks, but is seasoned with a little whisky finished in Malmsey Madeira casks. A very juicy, fruit-forward dram, this ended up coming in second place, bumping the Mizunara to 3rd. Still, they're all fantastic.

    That pretty much wrapped up the night. It was an amazing time start to finish - fantastic drams, but even better friends.

    Next Saturday we're doing a larger gathering - this time for Raising Glasses rums. Should be fun!

    #Whiskey #Whiskey #Rum #CompassBox #BlackTot #Mackmyra #Miltonduff #Teaninich #Macallan #HighlandPark #GlenMoray #NashobaValleyWinery #Glenmorangie #Scotch #Bourbon

  21. I can’t say if this is true for everyone, but if you purchased a home in #HighlandPark in #LA after 2000 and you’re a stylist in #WestHollywood chances are that means you’re a gentrifier, rather than a trailblazing iconoclast. #themoreyouknow #gentrification #wakeup

  22. Since #LosAngeles passed its tenant anti-harassment law in 2021, the city received over 21,000 complaints but referred just 35 cases for prosecution. Now #HighlandPark tenants have forced the first-ever enforcement through relentless organizing.

    #jacobin #housing #activism
    znetwork.org/znetarticle/la-te

  23. Woodrow's Highland Park 7, NC, NCF, 59.9%

    Sweet 'n fruity!

    Bottled by Woodrow's to celebrate Whisky Bar of the Year 2025

    #whisky #singlemalt #scotch #scotland #highlandpark #woodrow

  24. Developer proposes expansion of 19th-century social club and meeting hall into energy-efficient apartments on Dudley Street in #Roxbury
    universalhub.com/2025/develope
    #Boston #housing #HighlandPark

  25. Seattle City Light is reporting a medium outage in the Highland Park area.

    Start Date: Jun 16 4:52 PM
    Cause: Investigating

    #SeattleCityLightOutage #SCLOutage #HighlandPark #Seattle

  26. Seattle City Light is reporting a medium outage in the Highland Park area.

    Start Date: Jun 16 4:52 PM
    Cause: Investigating

    #SeattleCityLightOutage #SCLOutage #HighlandPark #Seattle

  27. CW: Alkohol
    Wenn man langsam grasartige Noten im #Whisky bemerkt, sollte man vmtl. für diesen Abend aufhören?

    #HighlandPark #Alkohol
  28. youtube.com/watch?v=5QoHO--lna

    #DaveNeal #TheRushHour two

    2.38 min. mark: Arsonist/extortionist and attempted kidnapper who supports #SuperRichBullies, threatens #HighlandPark family who backs indy-filmmaker. #EduardoAragon just sounds like a delusional person who seriously needs help.

    11.27 min. mark: Sadly, the #WayfairFoundation has folded. Reasons connected to many things including the lawsuit with #SuperRichBullies.

    19.40 min. mark: #DavePortnoy, CEO of #Barstool talks about what happened after antisemitic incident.

  29. Hopefully he gets life without parole.

    Even though Trump will hail him as a "patriot".

    And try to have him pardoned.

    #highlandpark #chicago youtube.com/watch?v=wyxWfeU_jk

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