Highland Park 1968-2003 - 35 Year Old - Single Cask 2277 - World Of Whiskies Exclusive

INFORMATION

Highland Park 1968 - 2003. 35 Year Old. Exclusively bottled for World Of Whiskies. Cask number 2277. One of 546 bottles. 70cl. 51.2%.

A top class 1968 vintage Highland Park single cask bottled in 2003 for duty free retailer World of Whiskies. Cask 2277 yielded 546 bottles at 51.2%, so it must have been a sherry or refill sherry butt. Interestingly, another version of this bottling exists with the Cask Strength Collection label used for the distillery’s visitor centre bottlings.

DISTILLERY:Highland Park

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:51.2%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

Bottle PRODUCED:546

BOTTLER:Distillery Bottling

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

CASK NUMBER:2277

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Island

DISTILLED YEAR:1968

BOTTLING DATE::2003

AGE:35

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.