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Highland Park, 40-year-old, Bottled 2019, Orkney, Single Malt Scotch Whisky (43.2%)

  • Scotch Whisky
Product: 10008059022
Highland Park, 40-year-old, Bottled 2019, Orkney, Single Malt Scotch Whisky (43.2%)

Description

Forty is an auspicious age for this writer, and what a treat to taste this at the distillery, just yards from its dunnage home of the past four decades. The signature Highland Park heather honey smoke is leaping out of the glass, mingling beautifully with Christmas cake and nutmeg. 

On the palate, coffee essence, Highland toffee, candied peel and yet more of that Orcadian heather peat come to the fore. This is a dram for slow contemplation next to a log fire.

Fergus Stewart, Private Client Manager, Berry Bros. & Rudd (March 2023)

Product Type Scotch Whisky
Main Ingredients Barley
Region Scotch Whisky
Producer Highland Park Distillery, Orkney

About this spirit

Highland Park Distillery, Orkney

Highland Park, one of only 2 distilleries in the Orkney Isles, was founded in 1798 by Magnus Euson, and is the world's most northerly distillery. Until it was licensed in 1825 it's production was illicit and Euson was assisted in evading the excisemen by a kinsman who was a Kirk elder and hid the contraband under the pulpit. By the 1880s Highland Park had an established reputation and at one time both the King of Denmark and the Emperor of Russia declared it to be the finest whisky they had ever tasted.
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