Highland Park 1986-2006 - 20 Year Old - Single Cask 2794

INFORMATION

Highland Park 1986 - 2006. 20 Year Old. Cask number 2794. One of 648 bottles matured in a Sherry Butt. 70cl. 56.2%.

A single cask Highland Park 1986 Cask 2794, this is a glorious old sherry butt that escaped the blending vat for the distillery’s official 12-year-old and was bottled in 2006 just shy of its 20th birthday, yielding a very generous 648 bottles at a hearty 56.2%. You know what you’re going to get when you see a HP this dark - a massive burst of deliciously deep sherry flavours.

DISTILLERY:Highland Park

DISTILLERY STATUS:Working

Bottle ABV:56.2%

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

Bottle PRODUCED:648

BOTTLER:Distillery Bottling

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

CASK NUMBER:2794

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Island

DISTILLED YEAR:1986

BOTTLING DATE::2006

AGE:20

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.