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Highland Park 1961 - Robertsons Of Kirkwall - The Dragon - Single Cask 4493

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Highland Park 1961. The Dragon. Bottled by Robertsons Of Kirkwall. Cask number 4493. 70cl. 48.1%.

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Good.

FILLING LEVEL

High Neck

Distillery: Highland Park

Distillery Status: Working

Region: Island

Distilled Year: 1961

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Limited Edition: yes

Cask Number: 4493

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 70cl / 700ml

ABV: 48.1%

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One of Scotland’s greatest distilleries, Highland Park on the Orkney archipelago has a long and storied history. The distillery in Kirkwall was founded in the 18th century by either David Robertson or Magnus Eunson, the latter of whom was a famous smuggler churchman who hid casks of his whisky from customs men by stashing them under his pulpit. Highland Park distillery has been owned by the Edrington Group since 1999 and is famed for its lightly smoky character from its own peated floor-maltings, which make up around 20% of the barley used for distillation.

Official bottlings of Highland Park began around the end of the 1970s, marking the beginning of a remarkable run of core bottlings, with the famous slope-shouldered 12-year-old and 18-year-old OBs from the 1980s now highly sought after at auction, as are the 1990s editions of the official 25-year-old. Independent bottlings of Highland Park were once very rare but now appear relatively regularly, usually as Orkney or Whitlaw.

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