Highland Park 1968 - The Dragon - Single Cask

INFORMATION

Highland Park 1968. The Dragon Pure Orkney Malt Whisky. Single Cask. Matured in a Sherry Cask. Private bottling botted by S. & J. D. Robertson Group Ltd. 70cl. 49.2%.

The Dragon 1968 is one of a series of outstanding old vintage bottlings of (undisclosed) Highland Park by local Orkney merchants Robertson’s of Kirkwall. The Robertson Dragon bottlings are highly regarded among Highland Park collectors, with a string of wonderful drams from the early 1960s and 1970s. This particular example is from a 1968 sherry cask bottled at some point in the 1990s at its cask strength of 49.2%.

DISTILLERY:Highland Park

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:49.2%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

BOTTLER:Private Bottling

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Island

DISTILLED YEAR:1968

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.