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Highland Park 1958 - 1998 - 40 Year Old


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Highland Park 1958 - 1998 - 40 Year Old
Highland Park 1958 - 1998 - 40 Year Old
LOT ID: 0323-298

Winning Bid
£4,000.00

End Date: 26 Apr 2023
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
LOT ID: 340

Winning Bid
£5,300.00

End Date: 04 Sep 2019
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
LOT ID: 474

Winning Bid
£4,200.00

End Date: 07 Mar 2018
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
LOT ID: 526

Winning Bid
£2,800.00

End Date: 01 Mar 2017
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
LOT ID: 811

Winning Bid
£3,100.00

End Date: 01 Feb 2017
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
LOT ID: 484

Winning Bid
£1,650.00

End Date: 19 Jul 2015
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
LOT ID: 241

Winning Bid
£1,850.00

End Date: 07 Jan 2015
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
LOT ID: 774

Winning Bid
£2,050.00

End Date: 03 Dec 2014
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
LOT ID: 561

Winning Bid
£2,600.00

End Date: 07 May 2014
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
Highland Park 1958 - 40 Year Old - Presentation Set
LOT ID: 267

Winning Bid
£1,500.00

End Date: 09 Jan 2013

Highland Park 1958 - 1998 - 40 Year Old

Highland Park 1958 - 1998. 40 Year Old. One of 665 bottles. 70cl. 44.0%.

Crowned one of the best Highland Park's ever bottled. This 1958 Highland Park was bottled back in 1998 at a natural cask strength of 44.0% - you would have thought this was the first official bottling by the distillery but they bottled a run of 40 year olds in the early 1970s but not again until this was released. I believe the casks selected for this bottling were Spanish Sherry Hogsheads. This is a remarkable and truly beautiful whisky that wears its age very gracefully.

Distillery:  Highland Park

Distillery Status:  Working

Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Region: Island

Distilled Year: 1958

Bottling Year: 1998

Age: 40

Bottles Produced: 665

Limited Edition: yes

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 70cl / 700ml

ABV: 44.0%

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.

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.