Highland Park Valhalla Collection With Longboat

INFORMATION

Highland Park Valhalla Collection including:

• Wooden longboat.
• Highland Park 16 Year Old, Thor, 2012 Release, 70cl. 52.1%.
• Highland Park 15 Year Old, Loki, 2013 Release, 70cl. 48.7%.
• Highland Park 15 Year Old, Freya, 2014 Release, 70cl. 51.2%.
• Highland Park 16 Year Old, Odin, 2015 Release, 70cl. 55.6%.

DISTILLERY:Highland Park

Bottle SIZE:70cl / 700ml

BOTTLER:Distillery Bottling

SPIRIT TYPE:Scotland

LIMITED EDITION:yes

CASK TYPE:Single Malt

REGION:Island

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.