Highland Park 1941 - St Magnus - Pot Still Pure Malt

INFORMATION

Highland Park 1941. St Magnus label. Pot Still Pure Malt. Stopper cork with branded foil seal (Connoly & Oliveri Ltd. Birmingham). No size stated although likely 26 2/3 Fl Ozs. 20 U.P (Under Proof). Equivalent to 80 Proof.

A wonderful old St. Magnus label bottling of Highland Park, this is a previously unknown bottling from the 1941 vintage and was released at 80 Imperial Proof (20 Under Proof), equivalent to 45.7%. Dating this bottle is difficult but it seems likely to come from the early to mid-1960s - another bottling from this vintage appeared in the late 1960s as a 25-year-old at 75 proof. A rare and beautiful bottle, this is one of Highland Park’s earliest known surviving distillates, and particularly rare as it’s from a war vintage.

DISTILLERY:Highland Park

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:20 U.P

Bottle SIZE:NA

BOTTLER:Distillery Bottling

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Island

DISTILLED YEAR:1941

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.