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- Category Scotch
- Country Scotland
- Region Islands
- Distillery Highland Park
- Age 15 Year Old
- Style Single Malt Scotch Whisky
- Alcohol 43%*
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Highland Park
15 Year Old 2016 Edition
(0.75l,
43%*)
*please note that the ABV of this bottle may vary
Highland Park traces its ancestry to Old Norse víkingar. Highland Park crafts their Whisky with the same independent ferocity, passed down from the fierce Norse seafarers who settled on Orkney over 1,000 years ago.
Highland Park was founded in 1798, as a Scotch Whisky distillery in Kirkwall Orkney. Highland Park is a half mile further north than Scapa distillery, making it the northernmost distillery in Scotland. Highland Park is not to be confused with the Scottish Highlands, in this case 'Highland' refers to the fact that the distillery was founded in an area called 'High Park' to create a distinction from a ‘lower Park’ area close by.
The distillery uses local barley and peat from the nearby Hobbister Moor. The malt is peated to 20 parts per million phenol, and then mixed with unpeated malt produced on the Scottish mainland. Highland Park is made today, just as it was in 1798, using what they call their “five keystones of production”: aromatic peat, hand turned floor maltings, Sherry oak casks, cool maturation, and cask harmonization.
They also are one of the few distilleries left to meticulously turn their malt by hand. Their barrels undergo a painstaking process too. After being cut from European and American oak, and crafted into staves at precisely 45°, (apparently this method was used by the Vikings to make their longships watertight) the staves are shipped to Jerez, where they’re made into casks, filled with Oloroso Sherry and left to mature for about two years. These casks are sent back to Orkney to be refilled with Whisky. Giving about 80% of Highland Park Whisky’s distinct flavors, and natural colorings. This special single malt is matured for 15 years. Bottled at 43% ABV.
Smartass Corner: The actions of legendary víkingar Ragnar Lothbrok and his sons are recounted in the Orkney Islands poem called Háttalykill.
- Category Scotch
- Country Scotland
- Region Islands
- Distillery Highland Park
- Age 15 Year Old
- Style Single Malt Scotch Whisky
- Alcohol 43%*
Appearance / Color
Amber
Nose / Aroma
Floral aromas, notes of toffee, peppery spice, and lightly smoky peat
Taste / Flavor / Palate
A round entry leads to a dryish full-bodied palate, with heather, iodine, toffee, and spice flavors
Finish
Long, with fading notes of peat and toffee
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Highland Park
15 Year Old 2016 Edition
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Smartass corner
Single malt stands for around 10% of the Scotch market. This is a malt containing only one grain, legally required to be barley in Scotland, and made at a single distillery.
A blended Scotch is a combination of different malts from different distilleries. It is typically made from grain Whisky but does include malt Whisky to give it a more complex body.
A blended Scotch is a combination of different malts from different distilleries. It is typically made from grain Whisky but does include malt Whisky to give it a more complex body.
Scotland is home to more than 20 million casks of maturing Whisky. That’s four for every person living there. Nuts!
Whisky distilling goes way back to 1494 when the first recorded batch was made by a posse of monks who acquired about 60 gallons of barley and decided to turn it into "aqua vitae". They created the first 1,500 bottles of Scotch in History.
90% of all Scotch Whiskies sold are Blends.
Hobbister Moor is a landmark in Scotland famous for its peat. Because there are no trees on the land to blend in the peat, it has a slightly lighter aroma.
Beer and malt Whisky seem to have quite a bit in common. Both drinks begin with malted barley, which deliver the enzymes and sugars needed for fermentation when steeped in hot water. The two go their separate ways at the wash stage, where they're fermented or aged to become the adult beverages you know and love.
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Dog Dogson's
Smartass corner
Single malt stands for around 10% of the Scotch market. This is a malt containing only one grain, legally required to be barley in Scotland, and made at a single distillery.
A blended Scotch is a combination of different malts from different distilleries. It is typically made from grain Whisky but does include malt Whisky to give it a more complex body.
A blended Scotch is a combination of different malts from different distilleries. It is typically made from grain Whisky but does include malt Whisky to give it a more complex body.
Scotland is home to more than 20 million casks of maturing Whisky. That’s four for every person living there. Nuts!
Whisky distilling goes way back to 1494 when the first recorded batch was made by a posse of monks who acquired about 60 gallons of barley and decided to turn it into "aqua vitae". They created the first 1,500 bottles of Scotch in History.
90% of all Scotch Whiskies sold are Blends.
Hobbister Moor is a landmark in Scotland famous for its peat. Because there are no trees on the land to blend in the peat, it has a slightly lighter aroma.
Beer and malt Whisky seem to have quite a bit in common. Both drinks begin with malted barley, which deliver the enzymes and sugars needed for fermentation when steeped in hot water. The two go their separate ways at the wash stage, where they're fermented or aged to become the adult beverages you know and love.
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