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Highland Park 10 Year Old Golden Jubilee Commissioned by Whisky Connoisseur

Highland Park 10 Year Old Golden Jubilee Commissioned by Whisky Connoisseur
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Lot number: 084-3064

Winning bid: £55

Highland Park remains the most northerly whisky distillery in Scotland, although not by much, as it is little more than a stone's throw from fellow Orcadian, Scapa. Accounts of the distillery's genesis vary, and the truth is probably lost to the mists of time, but it is thought that a local farmer named David Robertson founded what we now know as Highland Park distillery in 1798, on the site of an illicit still operated by nefarious smuggler (and former priest) Magnus Eunson.

Since its introduction as a single malt in the late 1970s, the distillery has been awarded many plaudits, not least of which came from the late, great whisky writer Michael Jackson, who called it “the greatest all rounder in the world of whisky”. It's characteristic style coming from the use of Sherry casks, along with an often cited heathery sweetness imparted to the spirit by way of the distinct Orcadian peat used during the malting process.

This Highland Park has been bottled for the Golden Jubilee.

From the Whisky Connoisseur in Bigger, Lanarkshire.

Age: 10 Years Old

40% ABV / 70cl

Bottle Number: 19 / 500

Please note minor wear to label

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