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Highland Park, 54-Year-Old, Orkney, Single Malt Scotch Whisky (46.9%)

  • Scotch Whisky
Product: 10008240408
Highland Park, 54-Year-Old, Orkney, Single Malt Scotch Whisky (46.9%)

Description

When released, this was the oldest bottling Highland Park had ever bottled. This 54-Year-Old shows the wisdom of using both boisterous and quieter wood to create harmony and complexity. After four decades of slumber in gently nutty refill casks, this was transferred to richly spicy, first-fill Sherry casks. Fourteen more years of careful, regular tasting ensured it would be captured at its apogee. Alluding to the age of the distillery at the time of bottling, 225 bottles were produced. Old, lightly smoky whisky like this gives such pleasure with featherweight peat twinkling through every moment and a surefooted roundness on the finish. Utterly immaculate, this is an Orcadian triumph.

Rob Whitehead, Spirits Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd

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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