LOT ID: 1022-211
End Date : Jan 04 2023 08:00 PM
Highland Park 1996 - 2006. 10 Year Old. Ambassador's Cask 2. Cask number 1071. One of 594 bottles from a Refill Sherry Cask. 70cl. 58.8%. In wooden presentation box.
Following the recent success of the Ambassadors Cask selected by Gerry Tosh. He has decided to select something unusual for any Highland Park collector.
This whisky was filled in 1996 into cask number 1071 and bottled in 2006 making it a I0 year old thus therefore creating the youngest whisky in our range. It is also 58.8% making it the strongest single malt at the time of release.
It has been aged in a refill sherry butt providing a paler natural colour than the Highland Park drinker will be used to. The classic Highland Park character is still very much in abundance and the aftertaste is sweet and plentiful. As you would expect from the Highland Park distillery.
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FILLING LEVEL
Into Neck
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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 are rare.
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Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.
This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.
BID | DATE | TIME | |
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£160.00 | 3rd January 2023 | 04:02 | |
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