HIGHLAND PARK - 21 ans - 46%
Highland Park is the most northerly Single Malt distillery in Scotland, situated in Kirkwall in the Orkney Islands. It is geographically closer to Norway than it is to London.
The distillery was founded in 1798 by Magnus Eunson, a butcher and church official by day, and a successful smuggler by night. Ironically, the distillery eventually ended up in the hands of the excise officer who arrested Eunson for smuggling.
Highland Park is one of the few distilleries in Scotland to malt its own barley and its two wash stills and two spirit stills can produce as much as 2.5 million litres of spirit a year.
Highland Park is owned by the Edrington Group, and is an ingredient of the Famous Grouse blend.
The house style is slightly peaty, slightly smoky and slightly sweet. Reintroduced in 2019, Highland Park 21-Year-Old has been matured in a combination of first-fill European oak sherry casks, first-fill American oak sherry casks and a handful of refill casks.